In a study published in June in the journal Icarus, Dr. de Pater and her colleagues named the prime suspect in this cloud cleansing: the sun. Neptune, a frigid planet decorated with supersonic ...

The claim: Photos appearing to show clouds behind the sun suggest it orbits the earth, isn't millions of miles away Earth orbits the sun, a star located more than 90 million miles away at the ...

“These remarkable data give us the strongest evidence yet that Neptune’s cloud cover correlates with the Sun’s cycle,” said senior study author Imke de Pater, professor emeritus of ...