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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits ...

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

A newly discovered distant mini-Neptune planet may possess its own atmosphere, ocean, or a combination of the two, even if they don't last for long.

Astronomers have observed a mysterious large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, along with a bright feature that has never been spotted before.

With its vanishing clouds and now a large dark spot, the planet Neptune appears to be going through some things. Here’s a bit about why the eighth planet in our solar system is causing all this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neptune, a frigid planet decorated with supersonic storms, has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which zipped by in 1989.Consequently, little is definitively known about the planet ...

We might have been very wrong about exactly what lurks below the tranquil blue and green surfaces of Uranus and Neptune. Previous theories have suggested a range of hidden properties of the two ...

This most likely occurs because when sunlight hits the top of Neptune’s atmosphere, its energy could kick-start chemical reactions there, creating clouds of methane and other chemicals.Those ...