Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

A proposed mission known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ice giants ...

The outermost layers of Uranus and Neptune consist mainly of ... However, exactly what the rest of the atmosphere of these planets is made of, and how they are structured, has remained somewhat ...

A fascinating new study has shed light on the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, two of the least explored planets in our solar system. Using advanced computer simulations, scientists have ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

The mission would drop a Galileo-like probe into the atmosphere of Uranus to take measurements. And the right suite of instruments could provide the data Militzer and others confirmation of ...

Above it sits a layer with the same thickness but made of water, and, to top it all off, an atmosphere 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) thick. Neptune is similar in size to Uranus but not exactly a ...

But he also stressed that Uranus is a complex system, consisting of the planet's interior, its atmosphere, its rings and small moons, larger satellites, its magnetosphere and its interactions with ...