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.

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...

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We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

US-based space agency NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune 's rings in more than 30 years. Most striking in Webb's new image is the ...

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.

The rings of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune are dark, sparse belts or ringlets. Only Saturn's massive main rings are dense and bright, made of almost pure water-ice particles ranging in size from ...