Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

Neptune was supposed to be the quiet, distant ice giant, a cold blue marble barely warmed by the Sun. Instead, the James Webb Space Telescope has just turned it into one of the strangest, most ...

Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun in our Solar System. Even when Pluto was still designated a planet, it has an elliptical orbit, bringing it closer to the sun than Neptune for 20-year ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras are compared to other planets', glowing over ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...

Auroras are spectacular manifestations of the action space has on a planet. More specifically, they occur when charged particles generally coming from the Sun hit a planet's atmosphere, releasing ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

PRINCETON, N.J. (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — A new planet was possibly discovered beyond the planet Neptune. Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences have announced ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

After studying thousands of computer simulations of the solar system, researchers at Rice University and the Planetary Science Institute think there’s a 40% chance an elusive “Planet Nine” or “Planet ...