Neptune, planet of dreams, drugs, vision, and oblivion, is going retrograde this summer. The mystical planet will slow its roll from July 2 until December 7. Neptune is the planet of fantasy and ...

This is the first time that the planet’s dark spots have ever been observed using an Earth-based telescope The findings were published on August 24 in the journal Nature Astronomy.

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of light greenish blue.

Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a common kind of planet that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. What they saw wasn't what they expected.

Set up in 2019 by Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, the outfit recently unveiled its new Spaceship Neptune capsule, a nine-seater craft designed to lift a crew of nine into the upper stratosphere, ...

Neptune, long believed to be dark blue, is actually very pale like Uranus, scientists say. They used modern telescopes to re-assess artificially enhanced images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe.

Astronomers have found a massive planet orbiting a small, cool star, and planet formation theories struggle to explain its existence.

Astronomers leading the search for the potential planet orbiting our sun far beyond Neptune recently revealed that they’ve whittled away at where it might be in the sky, eliminating 78 percent ...

With frigid temperatures and ferocious winds, our solar system's outermost planet may be last but it's certainly not least. Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of ...

A strange planet that's stymied astronomers for years has an "unusually shiny atmosphere" and could be home to large amounts of water vapor, scientists said in a study published Wednesday in the ...

Spaceship Neptune will be the vessel for this leisurely journey to a new perspective. ‘It’s the antithesis of a rocketship,’ says Poynter, ‘we will go to space at around 12 miles an hour, taking 2 ...