Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

The ice giant classification is oversimplified as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,' said experts.

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

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

Uranus is more interesting than previously thought, scientists have found. Everything scientists know about the distant world has been thrown into question after reviewing the only mission to venture ...

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 ...

Amateur astronomers asked to watch giant storm on distant planet. Nov. 2, 2011 — -- Something strange is happening on the planet Uranus. A fuzzy white spot has appeared on its frigid blue cloud ...

Observing the planets is one of the most awe-inspiring ways to witness the magic of the night sky—and there’s no better way to view them than in a planetary alignment. This is where multiple planets ...

Start at the Pleiades cluster (Seven Sisters) and use binoculars to star-hop to the seventh planet, Uranus. I connected some of the brighter, easier stars along the way into fanciful figures that will ...