Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...

A new analysis finds that images from Voyager 2's close encounter with Neptune show the planet as being far too blue In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

Less activity in a deep atmospheric layer might be what sets Uranus apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Why are Uranus and ...

Uranus is one of the lesser-explored planets in our solar system. It is a very long way away, orbiting around 1.8 billion miles from the sun (via NASA), and few spacecraft have ever visited there – ...

Patrick Gerard Joseph Irwin has received funding related to this study from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. In many images of the two outer gas giants of the Solar System, Neptune ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an amazing image of Uranus, showing in great detail the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its dynamic atmosphere. The new observation, ...