Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding of exoplanet behavior. The research, led by Netherlands astronomer ...

The bold question-askers at What If reveal what makes Neptune’s atmosphere so wildly unforgiving. Trump Burger's Kemah ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape our understanding of distant icy worlds—and even hint at how Earth once ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got a clear view of a sub-Neptune exoplanet's atmosphere, offering insight into a common-yet-mysterious world.

What they discovered was unexpected: Neptune's upper atmosphere cooled by several hundred degrees over the past few decades. Actually, 2023 temperature was about half as much as the temperature of ...

Neptune lies on the outer edges of the solar system, around 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) away from the Sun. At such great distance, it’s proven difficult to visit the farthest planet ...

Nearly 40 years ago, Voyager 2 recorded a temperature of around 900 degrees Fahrenheit for Neptune’s upper atmosphere. But the Webb telescope shows that the temperature has dropped, to close to ...