Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

'We were wrong' - Uranus and Neptune Might Not Be "Ice Giants" After All ...

Neptune was supposed to be the quiet, distant ice giant, a cold blue marble barely warmed by the Sun. Instead, the James Webb ...

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Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite directions — eastward on gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and westward on ice ...

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 / ...

The eighth and most distant planet from the sun, Neptune, reaches opposition with the sun on Sept.23, when it will be in its best position for viewing for the year. Neptune is too faint to see with ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

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