Neptune is our Solar System’s furthest planet from the Sun. When it reaches opposition, it will be the closest it may ever come to us Earthlings — only a mere 2.7 billion miles away.

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet by the ...

Neptune’s days last 16 hours, a year is around 165 Earth years, and is the farthest planet from the sun (around 2.8 billion miles). The planet was formed around 4.5 billion years ago and another ...

Because Neptune is the furthest planet in the solar system from our star, sitting at about 30 times the distance from the Earth to the sun, ... Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or on Facebook.

The distant, mysterious ice giant planet Neptune will present its best viewing opportunities for 2022 when the planet comes into opposition on September 16.. Neptune is the farthest known planet ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

After 20 years as an also-ran, humble Pluto has reclaimed its title as the solar system’s farthest planet. Most of the time, Pluto is farther away from the sun than Neptune, its planetary neighbor.

As the furthest planets from our Sun, being able to study them in-depth isn’t easy. NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planets in the 1980s, giving us our first properly side-by-side of ...