Tag: rocky giants


  • Rocky Giants: Reimagining Uranus and Neptune Interiors

    Rocky Giants: Reimagining Uranus and Neptune Interiors

    Introduction: Rethinking the Outer-Planet Class For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been branded the solar system’s ice giants. Based on early models, scientists believed these distant worlds were dominated by frozen ices—water, ammonia, and methane—surrounding a rocky core. But fresh research is challenging this long-held label, proposing a more nuanced interior structure that could even…