'It's a way of the sea returning the trash to us': Why plastic-filled 'Neptune balls' are washing up on beaches

As tiny pieces of plastic clog our oceans, natural meadows of seagrass are bundling up microplastics and spitting them back ...

Weird Balls Are Popping Up Along Shorelines. They Might Be Saving the Ocean.

Mediterranean Sea Posidonia oceanica seagrass is washing up on beaches in the form of balls—dubbed ‘Neptune balls’—full of ...

Nature’s own beach cleaner? How 'Neptune balls' are trapping millions of ocean plastics and sending them back to the beach

Plastic pollution plagues our oceans, but seagrass meadows offer a surprising solution. Neptune balls, formed from fibrous ...
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Most exoplanets that we thought were wet are probably dry inside

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...
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Neptune And Uranus Might Be Home To Hidden Oceans

Uranus and Neptune may soon lose their reputation as the "boring" planets of the solar system. Long overshadowed by the grandeur of Jupiter and Saturn, scientists now believe that beneath their thick, ...
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Ocean Grove plan for hotel, condo, homes and stores adopted by Neptune

NEPTUNE - The Neptune Township Committee voted 3-2 to adopt an amended redevelopment plan for the north end of Ocean Grove, a plan with a mix of retail, condominiums, single-family homes and a new ...

Neptune unlocks gates between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park for good

Neptune will no longer lock the pedestrian gates between Asbury Park and Ocean Grove at night, a step first taken as a crime-fighting tool.

Sub-Neptune exoplanets unlikely to be water-rich ocean worlds, researchers say

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...
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Is our dream of finding ocean-covered exoplanets drying up?

New simulations suggest sub-Neptune planets may be drier than thought, challenging the "water world" hypothesis and reshaping ...

New study confirms many sub-Neptune exoplanets are unlikely to be water worlds-Here is what study says

Astronomers have discovered that many sub-Neptune exoplanets, once thought to host vast oceans, are far less watery than ...
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Neptune residents 'crying out' for help with annual parking problems

NEPTUNE - Despite significant support from residents, the Neptune Township Committee has yet to formally implement a new residential parking program in Ocean Grove. Many of those residents packed ...