Recent observations of the Kuiper Belt have revealed anomalies that suggest the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet. This potential celestial body, often referred to as “Planet Y,” could ...

The 2024 astronomical calendar is packed with events; And there's more to look forward to, despite the eclipse and auroras already having passed overhead. Nicknamed the "planet parade," a planetary ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

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 ...

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Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

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 / ...