A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The cyan ...

The planet will ultimately end up either as a rocky core covered by oceans or as a completely barren naked planetary core. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured vivid auroras swirling in Neptune’s upper atmosphere—revealing a phenomenon that had eluded astronomers for decades. As reported ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

Longitudinal transition of LTT 9779 b from cloudy to cloud free. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02488-9 A team of international researchers including Dr. Jake Taylor from the ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (KRON) — NASA has confirmed its Hubble Space Telescope caught the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. The full visible-light image shows that the dark ...

Researchers observed exoplanet GJ 1214b's atmosphere by measuring the heat it emits while orbiting its host star. Astronomers directly detected the light emitted by a sub-Neptune exoplanet -- a ...

Despite being part of our own solar system, Neptune has long been a cosmic mystery. It's the most distant planet from the Sun and also one of the least explored. Only one spacecraft—Voyager 2—has ever ...

There aren't a lot of Hot Neptunes in the galaxy, and it's not entirely clear why. A Hot Neptune is, as the name implies, a Neptune-sized planet orbiting within 1 AU of its host star. While we've ...