The natural-color view of Neptune (to left), common to naked eyetelescopic views by amateur astronomers, reveals a cyan colored planet.Methane gas in Neptune's atmosphere absorbs most of the red ...

Neptune is the outermost planet in our solar system, just before Pluto, which used to be a planet, but is now considered a dwarf planet. Neptune is a gassy planet, just like Jupiter, but it’s smaller ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Neptune has always been known as an icy blue behemoth. The eighth ...

The NASA undertaking has brought together scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Uranus and Neptune are two of the most mysterious and least explored planets in the solar system.

For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge ...

It's been decades since a spacecraft visited either Uranus or Neptune — which means scientists are busy dreaming up instruments that could be flown out on the next probe to these ice giants. The pair ...

Artist’s rendering of TOI-1231 b, a Neptune-like planet about 90 light years away from Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech Discovering planets beyond our solar system is one thing — we’ve discovered over 4,000 ...

After a difficult search, scientists have found definitive traces of water on a relatively small exoplanet for the first time. The exoplanet in question, HAT-P-11b, is the size of Neptune and has ...

This artist's illustration shows two Earth-sized planets, TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which is much smaller and cooler than our sun. NASA/ESA/STScI/J.

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 ...