Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

While examining the patterns of history in the U.S., it is notable that when Uranus was in Gemini, the country was at war.

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this study to ...

The existence of these hidden oceans on Neptune and Uranus, as well as a lack of mixing within their interiors, a key feature in generating planetary magnetic fields, may hold the answer to why.

In this installment of Practical Magic, Lisa Stardust explains why people are talking about Uranus in Gemini 2025. Always ...

In 1986 and 1989, Voyager 2 made the final two stops on its grand tour of the outer solar system when it swept by Uranus and Neptune, respectively. Now, nearly 40 years later, ...

Uranus’ shifting colors can be partly explained by atmospheric methane. Because methane absorbs red and green light, the equator ends up reflecting more blue light; by contrast, the poles, which ...

The hidden moons were discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, and the discovery brings the moon counts for these planets to 28 and 16, respectively. The discovery of these hidden moons is both ...

More information: Burkhard Militzer et al, Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI ...

These NASA images of Uranus (left) and Neptune were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, with models of the planets' interior structures seen in the inset.

In the case of Uranus, the core is the size of Mercury, and Neptune’s is slightly larger, more Mars-size. Previously, scientists had thought the interiors of the two planets would be more mixed.