The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first image of the solar system ice giant Neptune, revealing the planet in a whole new light. The image gives ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

Neptune, the eighth and final planet from the sun, is known for its trails of wispy white clouds made up of crystals of frozen methane. Strong winds whip these clouds across the ice giant at ...

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with fleet-footed Mercury remaining nearby close to With Mercury sticking low to the ...

But in reality, Neptune is far more of a light greenish blue. It's actually pretty similar in color to its fellow ice giant Uranus, also visited by Voyager 2. "We find that the planets are ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral ...

A spatial enigma hides in the depths of Uranus and Neptune. Titanic storms sporadically appear, perplexing astronomers. These ice giants, with atmospheres still poorly understood, prove to be true ...

Spots are common in the atmospheres of giant planets, with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot being the most famous. In 1989, a dark spot was first discovered on Neptune by NASA’s Voyager 2 before the ...

The observation, made Feb. 6, comes on the heels of a similar photo the powerful telescope captured of the solar system's other ice giant, Neptune. According to a news release from NASA ...