Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

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

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

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

Named TOI-4465 b, the exoplanet caught astronomers' attention as it acts as a bridge between scorching gas giants and ice ...

At the time of this writing, June 23, Jupiter was about half a degree left of the afternoon Sun and due to pass behind it ...

By the way, on May 10 at 7:47 p.m. CDT, the Moon will be at apogee, its farthest to the Earth for this orbit at 252,428 miles. On May 25 at 8:27 p.m. CDT, the Moon will be at perigee, its closest ...

No one on earth will live to experience a whole Neptune cycle — it takes about 165 years for this planet to orbit around the sun and journey through the entire zodiac — so anytime it changes ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit, moving in the opposite direction of the planet’s rotation. Its orbit is also significantly tilted, angled 67 degrees from Neptune’s equator.

In fact, its orbit is the single most eccentric ever observed in an exoplanet; according to the research team, 241249530’s trajectory is “closer to a cucumber than a circle.” ...