The Hubble Space Telescope has peered at Uranus, left, and Neptune to study the so-called "ice giant" planets, but little is known about their interior composition. Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / ...
When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...
A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that ...
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 ...
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