The proposed mission, known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ...

New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of ...

We need to probe Uranus... this is at least according to boffins who believe the planet needs to become a major exploration ...

Experts who believe in this object, dubbed Planet Nine, claim it’ll be a gas or ice giant big enough to be considered a real ...

A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan ...

In our search for exoplanets, we’ve found that many of them fall into certain types or categories, such as Hot Jupiters, ...

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...

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 ...

Uranus, along with Neptune, is in a class of planets called ice giants. Astronomers have detected more ice giant-sized bodies outside of our solar system than any other kind of exoplanet.

“So this hypothesis is very compelling.” The idea about the two ice giant planets – so-called because of the freezing conditions in which they formed – was put forward by Burkhard ...