Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
Astronomers directly detected the light emitted by a sub-Neptune exoplanet -- a ... Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System.
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
New data analysis suggests if Voyager 2 had arrived just a few days earlier, it would have observed something completely ...
Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also happens to be ...