NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.

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 ...

NASA has published its first photos of Neptune taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. The images, Neptune system expert and NASA Interdisciplinary Scientist Heidi Hammel said, offer the ...

In a groundbreaking study, astronomers describe the strange atmosphere of a Neptune-like exoplanet more than 400 light years away. The discovery could yield vital clues about our own solar system.

When there is heightened activity on the sun, more intense ultraviolet radiation bombards the solar system. With data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and ...

A passing star, or a stellar flyby, with the potential to pull Neptune out of its orbit by just 0.1%, could mean catastrophe for the entire solar system. But don’t worry — it won’t happen in ...

Neptune 101 Neptune is the most distant of the solar system's eight planets. Find out about the blue world's orbit, which of Neptune's moons is the largest, and how the planet is home to the most ...

Exploring Uranus and Neptune won’t just help us understand the planets of our solar system—it could also help us comprehend the ones orbiting nearby alien stars. But many of these missions are ...

Total disk mass ranges 0.01 to 0.07 solar masses, 3.329428E+03 (3329.428) earth masses up to 2.330599E+04 (23305.99) earth masses in the protoplanetary disk said to evolve into the solar system we ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.