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When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

New scrutiny of Uranus’ largest moons suggest the bodies may contain ocean layers that could be dozens of miles deep. Uranus has at least 27 moons, which are cold and icy like their host planet. A ...

Since Uranus and Neptune are gas planets, their equatorial radii are even defined from the center out to the edge of their gaseous layers, which reinforces the idea that what matters most is the ice ...

Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: NASA, ESA, Mark Showalter (SETI Institute), Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Andrew I. Hsu (UC ...

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble ...

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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 ...