For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...
Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...
A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.
New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.