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 ...

Astronomers have spotted a large and mysterious dark spot within Neptune’s atmosphere, and it has an unexpectedly bright companion.Video above: NASA discovers a question mark in spaceThe observation ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Neptune’s atmospheric temperature is on an unexpected roller-coaster ride, and it could take decades for scientists to piece together what’s happening at the distant planet. Each Neptune year lasts ...

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 ...

Find out what happens if you fall into the deep, stormy atmosphere of Neptune. Volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years: ...

New NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the distant planet Neptune show a dynamic atmosphere and capture the fleeting orbits of its satellites. The images have been assembled into a time-lapse movie ...

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 ...

The usual icy blue tone of Neptune was disrupted by a brewing storm in a new photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. During last year's routine monitoring of the outer planets of the solar ...

The most recent vortex on the left and the first one discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2. NASA/ESA/GSFC/JPL. Astronomers are witnessing a so-called “Great Dark Spot” in the midst of formation on Neptune ...

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 ...

So far we've spotted more than 4,000 planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, but we know very little about their atmospheres. Now, NASA astronomers have managed to probe the atmosphere of GJ 3470 b ...