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Uranus and Neptune may not be 'ice giants' after all, new research suggests

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

Rethinking the “Ice Giants”: Uranus and Neptune may be rockier than we thought

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...
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Uranus And Neptune May Not Be "Ice Giants" But The Solar System's First "Rocky Giants"

Uranus and Neptune are the two furthest planets in the Solar System and have been visited only once by human spacecraft – by Voyager 2 over 30 years ago – so there is a lot about them that we do not ...

Longstanding 'ice giant' classification of Uranus and Neptune might be conflicted

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

A moon around Uranus may have had an ocean 100 miles deep, new study finds

Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — about 40 times deeper than the ...