The ice-giant Neptune, the most distant and third largest planet in our solar system, is a distinctive dark blue ball of gas, which may appear calm but is actually throttled by a chaotic atmosphere.

The detection of Neptune's auroras will help astronomers better understand how particles from the sun interact with its atmosphere, providing a new area of study about ice giant planets.

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 ...

Wind tunnels show what a probe descending into the atmosphere of an ice giant may have to contend with. What would it be like to fall through the clouds of our solar system's ice giants, Uranus or ...

NASA's James Webb Space Snaps Ringed Ice Giant Neptune in Sharp Near-Infrared Glory Neptune is known for its distinct appearance. By Jace Dela Cruz Updated: Aug 19 2023, 06:05 AM EDT .

In the new study, planetary scientists analyzed Hubble’s photos of the ice giant taken over the past several years and chronicled the growth of a new Great Dark Spot that became visible in 2018.

The ice giant Neptune - too dim to spot with the naked eye - will be positioned roughly 1 degree to the upper left of Saturn and can be observed using a telescope with an aperture of 8-inches (200 ...

images of the giant ice planet today (OCT. 25, 2000) at the American Astronomical Societyís Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Pasadena, Cal. The team captured the Neptune images on five ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have made a significant breakthrough by detecting a sizable dark vortex within Neptune's atmosphere. Intriguingly ...

The ice giants Uranus and Neptune live up to their name. Although humans have only ever sent one spacecraft (Voyager 2) toward these far-flung worlds, scientists have a pretty good idea that these ...

It will eventually be given a proper name, picked from one of Shakespeare’s plays like all the other moons of the ice giant. S/2023 U1 was discovered on November 4, 2023, but it was then found ...