The finding of possible oceans inside Uranus and Neptune shifts the goalposts in planetary science. These facts overthrow preconceived ideas about the ice giants of the solar system. This allows for ...

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ...

Ask anyone what their favorite planet in the solar system is besides Earth, and very few will say Uranus or Neptune. The ice giants in the outer solar system are rather dull-looking. Earlier this ...

Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in the 1980s showed Neptune to be a rich blue and ...

Top researchers have cracked the 228-year-old mystery about the colours of the two planets which are furthest from the Sun and planet Earth. New research by top professors at the University of ...

On Neptune far out in the solar system it’s a different story—but what happens on the ice giant planet nevertheless appears to be inextricably linked to the same solar cycle. Having looked at ...

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as ...

A quick guide to the planet Neptune, which is composed mainly of water. It has many moons and the fastest winds in the solar system. They blow up to 2000km per hour. NOTE: This clip was factually ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan previously reported on how Uranus and Neptune got their colors, and a new understanding of Uranus’s magnetosphere. We might finally understand ...