Ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune might not be full of ice after all

Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the "ice giant" planets of the solar system decades ago. Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that means "terrible lizard king," calling these planets "icy" hasn't aged well. New research from a team at the University of Zurich in Switzerland suggests the nickname was a misnomer, with the two blue worlds in distant space potentially being made of more rock than ice. The cold and remote