Deep inside Uranus and Neptune, scientists have identified signs of an unusual state of matter unlike anything observed under normal conditions. At the center of the study is carbon hydride, observed ...

Solid diamonds may be forming and falling like rain deep inside Neptune and Uranus, where pressures exceed 19 gigapascals and temperatures climb high enough to rip methane molecules apart. Laboratory ...

Far beneath the thick blue clouds of Uranus and Neptune, matter may behave in ways never before seen. Under crushing pressures and searing heat, carbon and hydrogen could organize into a bizarre new ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

Skoltech scientists and their Chinese colleagues have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion. Dubbed aquodiium, it can be conceptualized as an ordinary neutral ...

James Webb found Neptune's moon Nereid has an unusual icy surface, suggesting it formed alongside the planet instead of being captured later.