A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they ...

While Uranus and Neptune are similar in color, according to the research, Neptune does have a "slight hint of additional blue", which the model shows is because of a thinner haze layer on the planet.

Researchers reveal the true colors of the planets Neptune and Uranus in corrected images.

Older reporters and scientists still remember, but the general public and even some younger scientists did not realize the true color of Neptune. New Oxford University papers analyzed the seasons on ...

Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the ...

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 ...

(CNN) - The true colors of Uranus and Neptune may be more similar than previously thought. A team at the University of Oxford used two different telescopes including the Hubble to capture new data ...

At the time, Uranus appeared to be a pale cyan color while Neptune was depicted as a striking deep blue. Neptune’s images were stretched and enhanced and made “too” artificially blue.