For decades, Uranus and Neptune have remained among the least understood planets in the solar system. Their distance from ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been filed neatly into the “ice giant” drawer, shorthand for worlds built mostly from ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Superionic water could be responsible for the peculiar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune. Researchers have analyzed it ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Rostock, CNRS-École polytechnique in France, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has discovered a previously unknown form ...

The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don't see them as green because of the way stars emit ...

What you won’t see, though, are green ones. The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don’t see ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...