The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an hour before they found the Neptune. That was in 1846.

In the vast and boundless universe, countless astonishing mysteries are hidden. Today, let us turn our gaze to the mysterious ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (KRON) — NASA has confirmed its Hubble Space Telescope caught the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. The full visible-light image shows that the dark ...

New NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the distant planet Neptune show a dynamic atmosphere and capture the fleeting orbits of its satellites. The images have been assembled into a time-lapse movie ...

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At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The cyan ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...