Where are all the ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out
Astronomers have launched a new program known as ATREIDES to study a mysterious "desert" in…
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Scientific American Is Older Than the Discovery of Neptune
In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the…
Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’
Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system…
See the moon rise alongside the giant planets Neptune and Saturn predawn on June 19
The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in…
Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings
Triton, left, and Pluto (not shown to scale) may be long-lost siblingsJPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins University Applied…
Evidence for Planet 9 found in icy bodies sneaking past Neptune
More evidence for a hypothetical extra planet lurking in the most distant reaches of our…
Tiny new moons have been spotted orbiting Neptune and Uranus
The planets Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) have a few additional moonsNASA, ESA, Mark Showalter…
What’s the forecast for Neptune-like exoplanets cloudy or clear?
What is the weather forecast like for the Milky Way's most common planets? Cloudy or…
Uranus and Neptune Have Similar Hues, New Study Shows
In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight…