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 ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen water, ammonia and methane. A new wave of modeling work is now challenging ...

Uranus, an ice giant planet and the seventh planet from the sun, may be warmer than previously thought. The third largest planet in the solar system — previously thought to be the coldest despite ...

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 ...

Prehistoric Planet turned Bruneau Dunes State Park into an Ice Age stage, bringing mammoths and movie magic to the sands of Idaho.

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite directions — eastward on gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and westward on ice ...