For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen ...

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

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 ...

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

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

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

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune are shrouded in a frosty and swirling atmosphere of largely hydrogen and helium. And neither planet features a solid surface, which complicates our efforts to explore ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns Hopkins ...

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 ...