To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

For decades, scientists have believed that Uranus and Neptune are “ice giants,” planets made mostly of icy materials like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that NASA's Voyager 2 probe began decades ago.

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead. Astronomers have long called Uranus ...

In humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of ...

Neptune, the most distant major planet in the Solar System, has finally given up one of its longest held secrets. After ...