Neptune is one of the most mysterious planets in our solar system, with its deep blue color, intense storms, and extreme winds. When Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, it revealed jaw-dropping ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Unlike the 1974 alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune captured by the Voyager spacecraft, the planets visible this month will be flung across the sky at varied depths, distances ...

We'll see six planets in the first part of February – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn – and on Feb. 28, they ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.

Witness a rare celestial spectacle as seven planets align in the night sky for one night in late February, offering a ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The six planets are visible now, and will remain so until late February.

But Voyager 2 used the alignment to visit all four planets, becoming the only spacecraft in history to visit Uranus and Neptune, in 1986 and 1989 respectively. "That worked out fantastic," says ...