On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover will go dark for a few weeks due to a conjunction between Earth and Mars, blocking communication between the two planets.

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Saturn is famous for its magnificent rings. But did you know that other gas planets like Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also ...

Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen ...

Saturn's huge moon Titan may not hide an ocean under its frozen surface but rather widespread pockets of liquid water, a new study finds. Titan is the largest of the 274 known moons orbiting Saturn.

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...