NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and ...

Images of Uranus and Neptune captured decades ago and showing the planets, respectively, as light green and bright blue orbs have since become enshrined as our collective vision of those distant ...

An image of Uranus on the left and Neptune on the right. They look almost indiscernible as they're both light blues. In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

Uranus and Neptune are the ice giant planets of the Solar System and have plenty of similarities. A major difference at a glance has always been their color – sure, they were both on the blue spectrum ...

(CNN) — Often appearing in images to have starkly different hues, the true colors of Neptune and Uranus may be more similar than previously thought, new research has found. The first detailed glimpses ...

The way most of the public thinks Neptune and Uranus look, especially "big blue" Neptune, does not likely resemble what astronomers say these icy giant worlds actually look like. The planets of Uranus ...

Historic color photos of Uranus and Neptune are actually the wrong colors, and a recent study used new data and a lot of math to set the record straight. In Voyager 2’s full-color photos of the ice ...

"Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made artificially too blue," ...

Imagine taking a trip to the outer reaches of our Solar System, to a place few have ever seen up close. Uranus, the icy giant, is a world of extremes, violent, cold, and unlike any other planet you ...

The outermost ring of the planet Uranus turns out to have a bright blue color, according to a report in the April 7 issue of the journal Science. That makes it only the second blue ring to be found in ...