Our solar system has a few new entries with the recent discovery of three moons of Uranus and Neptune. These ice giant planets are so far away that it is difficult to detect small moons orbiting them, ...

They have missing "dipole magnetic fields." Here's why that's really weird. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA's Voyager 2 ...

A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren't quite as watery as previously thought. They may also contain huge amounts of frozen methane, potentially solving the puzzle of how they formed ...

In space, not everything is how it seems, and this might be the case with Uranus and Neptune, as a study scheduled to be published in February 2024 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble ...

The farthest planet from the Sun has a rather strange collection of moons in its orbit. That may be because Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, made a mess when it forced its way into the planet’s orbit ...

Weather forecast for Neptune: After sunny weather for the past few Earth years, we’ll see increasingly more clouds over the next few years. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first ...