It has emerged that the earlier images of Neptune had been enhanced to show details of the planet's atmosphere, which altered its true colour. "They did something that I think everyone on ...

Feb. 2, 2024 — Astronomers have shown new atmospheric detail in a set of 15 exoplanets similar to Neptune. While none could support humanity, a better understanding of their behavior might help ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

The outermost layers of Uranus and Neptune consist mainly of clouds of ... However, exactly what the rest of the atmosphere of these planets is made of, and how they are structured, has remained ...

Planet TOI-3261 b is about twice as dense as Neptune, indicating that the lighter parts of its atmosphere have been stripped away over time, leaving only the heavier components. This shows that ...

The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science: Uranus and Neptune. Their beautiful blue-green colors hide under fat layers of thick atmosphere, where mysteries abound. But now, ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...

NASA scientists have identified a new exoplanet, TOI-3261 b, with an extraordinarily short year lasting just 21 Earth hours.

NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

Winds on Neptune churn up methane gas from the deep, and they glom onto aerosol particles in the atmosphere, causing haze to ...