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 ...

A newly discovered planet sits in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are right for liquid water if the ...

New NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the distant planet Neptune show a dynamic atmosphere and capture the fleeting orbits of its satellites. The images have been assembled into a time-lapse movie ...

We might have been very wrong about exactly what lurks below the tranquil blue and green surfaces of Uranus and Neptune. Previous theories have suggested a range of hidden properties of the two ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has peeled back the layers on sub-Neptunes, a type of gassy exoplanet scattered in large numbers throughout the universe. While sub-Neptunes' thick atmospheres have ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

Scientific discovery is a funny thing. Sometimes it occurs quite accidentally, sometimes after a conscious search. A perfect example of the latter is the discovery of the planet Neptune. Astronomers ...