By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star ...

New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of ...

The atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune may be separated into layers that don't mix, like oil and water.

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan previously reported on how Uranus and Neptune got their colors ...

Planets about the size of Uranus and Neptune -- so-called sub-Neptune planets -- are among the most common exoplanets discovered to date. Convection leads to magnetic fields As a planet cools from ...

A rare ‘neptune-sized’ planet has been discovered orbiting scorchingly close to its host star - only the fourth planet of its kind found. Scientists at NASA have uncovered a planet ...

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes A photo of Neptune, taken by the Voyager 2 probe, with the ...

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 ...