Space is loaded with strange things—black holes, pulsars, gigantic clouds of alcohol, and more weird planets than you could count. Even our own solar system has some oddballs—like Neptune.

NASA has rekindled interest in Uranus and Neptune by revealing ... which is more than 60,000 times that of the Earth’s surface. Why are Neptune and Uranus important in the search for life? Although ...

Ever-changing spots mottle Neptune’s surface Neptune’s exterior is mottled with shifting dark and bright spots. NASA / JPL Jupiter boasts a Great Red Spot, but its counterparts exist on Neptune.

NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever images of auroral activity on Neptune, after years of tantalizing hints. The images in question of Neptune were captured by ...

In this combination image released by ESA/Webb, left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA ...

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.