Unlike Earth, Uranus isn't blue because of water, but rather methane. Yes, the same chemical you hear about in the context of cow flatulence, sewage, and natural gas.

Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost planets, and you may picture two distinct hues: pale turquoise and cobalt blue. But astronomers say that the true colors of these ...

While the giant, icy worlds are similar in many ways, a thinner, more active haze makes Neptune more blue than Uranus. Share full article Images made of Uranus, left, and Neptune, during flybys of ...

The lovely blue color of Uranus is because of its atmosphere, which is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium, as well as smaller amounts of methane (via Universe Today).It is this methane that ...

Neptune and Uranus are both ice planets in our solar system, but they possess different shades of blue. While Uranus has a pale cyan color, Neptune is a more vibrant blue.

Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.

Uranus and Neptune are extremely far away at 20 and 30 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, according to NASA, and they are rarely visited by spacecraft so there's a lot we don't know ...

Generally, Neptune is depicted as a rich, deep blue. Uranus is usually seen as a pale green or cyan. In fact, however, they are much more similar than we thought.

The planet Uranus is spectacularly far away. Even when viewed from Saturn, the next planet in, icy Uranus is still just a few pixels of blue in an inky black sky. This photo was taken by NASA’s ...

Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.