New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.
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Are Uranus and Neptune Really Ice Giants? New Study Says Maybe Not
Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.
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Uranus’s small moons appear dark, red, and short on water
Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. He contributed this article to ...
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