Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...

Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen water, ammonia and methane wrapped in hydrogen and helium. A new ...

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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. - NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / L.

Some big-deal news in astrology: On August 28, two massive, tectonic-plate-shifting outer planets, Uranus and Neptune, are forming a rare and dreamy alignment that hasn’t happened since the late 1960s ...

We’re in one of the most concentrated periods of planetary change in modern history. The closest parallels are periods of ...