On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Not long after Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846, scientists have managed to calculate the exact length of one day on the distant gas giant planet.

For years, scientists have suspected that Triton wasn't part of Neptune's original collection of moons. The massive moon has a backward orbit, and makes up over 99 percent of all the mass orbiting ...

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

It orbits Neptune in the opposite direction of Neptune's rotation, known as a retrograde ... taking almost 26 Earth years to complete a single orbit of Neptune. Sao: Discovered Aug. 14, 2002, by ...

Neptune's elliptical, oval-shaped orbit keeps the planet an average distance from the sun of almost 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), or roughly 30 times as far away as Earth, making it ...

For decades, images taken of Neptune have looked like the planet has a deep blue hue, while Uranus seemed more green. However, these two ice giants may actually look more similar to eachother than ...

Discovered in 1846, Triton is the only known large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, traveling in the opposite direction to the planet’s rotation. This fact indicates that ...

Mercury spins on its axis very slowly and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days. However, its orbit around the Sun is speedy compared to other planets. Mercury circles the Sun every 88 Earth ...

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.” ...

Those moons, called S/2002 N5 and S/2021 N1, bring the total of Neptune’s known moons to 18. The moon S/2021 N1 takes about 27 Earth years to complete an orbit around Neptune while S/2002 N5 ...

Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images ... but also for tracking long-term atmospheric changes as the planets orbit the sun.