The astronauts circling Earth on the Artemis mission sent back beautiful clear photos of the continents, clouds, and oceans.
New photos of Neptune’s glowing auroras are the most detailed ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – but has also left astronomers with more questions. Auroras can happen on any planet, ...
Perhaps the most intriguing exoplanets found so far are those bigger than our rocky, oceanic Earth but smaller than cold, gas-shrouded Uranus and Neptune. This mysterious class of in-between planets ...
A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the soot produced by ...
A strange dark spot on Neptune has been observed from Earth for the first time, offering fresh clues into how these marks form. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe detected a shadowy region on ...
The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...
Using data from the Webb space telescope, a team of researchers is suggesting that Neptune’s moon Nereid is the only survivor of the ancient lunar collision that rewrote the history of the planet’s ...
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...