Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in ...

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

There are a lot of worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune. Some are dwarf planets, while many others are much smaller rocks ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the ...

Neptune is located in the outer solar system, 30 times further from the sun than Earth, and was discovered by astronomers in 1846. NASA says that Neptune’s vast distance from our sun means that ...

Jupiter isn't the only planet with a giant spot - Neptune has one too. Skip to main content. ... but when the Hubble Space Telescope tried to image the spot in 1994, it had disappeared.

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

The last time Neptune's rings were seen in detail was during a flyby in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it journeyed beyond the solar system and into interstellar space. That historic flyby ...

Astronomers first spotted this moon in 2013 by combing through images of Neptune that were taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The discoverers have now dubbed the world Hippocamp, the name ...