The majority of stars in our galaxy are home to planets. The most abundant are the sub-Neptunes, planets between the size of Earth and Neptune. Calculating their density poses a problem for scientists ...
A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.
If you look at our Solar System, there’s a sharp divide between the four rocky planets and the large “ice giants” of the outer Solar System, Uranus, and Neptune. The divide isn’t only a matter of ...
How do we know anything about the winds on these remote planets? The main sources of information date back to the close encounters of the Voyager 2 spacecraft with Uranus (in 1986) and Neptune (in ...
A team of astronomers looking into the vast cosmos has located a planet that is the size of Neptune but has a density similar to Earth, and it just happens to be called EPIC212521166 b. The ...