Neptune is way, way out there, orbiting the Sun some 2.8 billion miles away. That’s likely why a new analysis of some old photos of the ice giant have just revealed something a bit funny: We’ve been ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Sea Ice Today began as a way to make sea ice science and analysis more relevant and accessible. In combination, NASA data and NSIDC expertise provide easy-to-use resources and tools to increase our ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

A Neptune-sized exoplanet has been detected moving at a record-breaking 1.2M mph, led by a hypervelocity star.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

A “loving husband” and “amazing” father-of-three killed in the Omagh bombing has been remembered as a “gentle giant” at an inquiry into the atrocity. Brian McCrory, a former fireman ...

Located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, it consists of a red giant and a white dwarf companion. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead ...