The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Our solar system's blue gas giant is far larger than Earth, at more than 17 times Earth's mass and nearly 58 times Earth's volume, according to NASA.Neptune's rocky core is surrounded by a slushy ...

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As a gas giant (or ice giant), Neptune has no solid surface. In fact, the blue-green disc we have all seen in photographs over the years is actually a bit of an illusion. What we see is actually ...

However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if ...

All told, there are only 14 known moons of Neptune, the smallest number known for a gas giant planet. Triton's south polar terrain photographed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.