The two outermost planets in the solar system are so cold, distant, and rarely visited that much of what happens beneath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New simulations reveal a bizarre superionic carbon-hydrogen phase that may exist deep inside giant planets. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

A new study identifies an unexpected mineral in two of the planet’s inner moons, pointing to a destructive past in which a large object got pulled into the system and obliterated the former, larger sa ...

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 ...

JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune’s ...

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 ...