Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for ...

Though Captain Planet has largely been dormant since the cartoon's original run, now he's coming back in the form of a new ...

These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our system. This discovery paves the way for future atmospheric studies to better understand these ...

Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

This suggests that large and small planets may form in different ways. “What we found is that right around the size of Neptune, planets go from being almost always on circular orbits to very often ...

Previously scientists determined that a Neptune-sized planet is in a very close orbit around the white dwarf – completing one revolution in less than three days. The researchers in this latest ...

The finding points toward two different pathways by which large and small planets form. "What we found is that right around the size of Neptune, planets go from being almost always on circular ...

The parade around February 28 was of the latter variety, involving seven planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The closer planets were visible to the naked eye but ...