A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

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 ...

Scientists are probing decades of claims and studies about our Solar System’s two most distant major planets Uranus and ...

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and ...

WASHINGTON — Stargazers had a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets on Monday night: Uranus. The ice giant, which is the planet seventh furthest from the sun, reached opposition on ...

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Stargazers have a chance to ...

(NewsNation) — Stargazers will have a chance to see Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, just after midnight EST. The early hours of Nov. 13 will bring an ideal opportunity to ...