The hidden moons were discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, and the discovery brings the moon counts for these planets to 28 and 16, respectively. The discovery of these hidden moons is both ...

Diamond rain on Uranus and Neptune: Recent research suggests that extreme pressures and temperatures deep within Uranus and Neptune create conditions where carbon atoms crystallize into diamonds ...

In 2023, researchers used the instrument to detect infrared auroras on Uranus. This time, it found them on Neptune as well. The images also allowed Hammel and her team to begin constructing a map ...

Many people think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus more green, but a team from the University of Oxford found that the two ice giants, are actually a "similar shade of greenish ...

Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared ...

However, imaging and confirming the auroras on Neptune has long evaded astronomers despite successful detections on Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it ...