A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge ...
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.
For decades, scientists have believed that Uranus and Neptune are “ice giants,” planets made mostly of icy materials like ...
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 ...
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets’ interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ou ...