The recently discovered outermost ring of gas giant Uranus is a bright blue, scientists said Thursday. Saturn is the only other planet with an identified blue outer ring in the solar system. Both blue ...

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – While Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green, a new study revealed that the two ice giants are far closer in color than typically thought. Despite the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Uranus ...

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The outermost ring of Uranus, discovered just last year, is bright blue, making it only the second known blue ring in the solar system, according to a report this week in the journal Science. Perhaps ...

Out in the depths of the solar system lie the far-off ice giant planets. Uranus and Neptune are extremely far away at 20 and 30 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, according to NASA, and ...

While the giant, icy worlds are similar in many ways, a thinner, more active haze makes Neptune more blue than Uranus. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Roses are red. Neptune’s deep blue. Why, scientists ...

Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue, and we may finally know why. In visible-light images, Uranus appears a pale blue, while Neptune is a deeper, cobalt hue. Using data from the Hubble ...

Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color. New space and ground-based ...

The outermost ring of the planet Uranus turns out to have a bright blue color, according to a report in the April 7 issue of the journal Science. That makes it only the second blue ring to be found in ...