This image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel within Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its constituent colors or wavelengths.

A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies well beyond the orbit of ...

In Mrs. Wescott’s eighth-grade earth science class, a betta fish named Neptune is both a lesson and a little relief. “Well, I ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

An artist's interpretation of what Planet Nine might look like. As the search for "Planet Nine" in the outer solar system continues, new research suggests there may be an Earth twin buried deep within ...

Using Google Earth as our guide, we retrace Operation Neptune Spear by mapping the key locations and movements that defined ...

What can sub-Neptune exoplanets teach astronomers about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...

Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...

As the search for "Planet Nine" in the outer solar system continues, new research suggests there may be an Earth twin buried deep within the frozen waste of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune. Astronomers ...