For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...
For decades, school posters and science museum displays have grouped Uranus and Neptune together as “ice giants,” a tidy label that suggests frozen, water-rich worlds lurking at the edge of the Solar ...
New research suggests Uranus and Neptune may not be true ice giants, with rocky interiors dominating instead, challenging ...
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...
Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has peered at Uranus, left, and Neptune to study the so-called "ice giant" planets, but little is known about their interior composition. Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / ...