When you think of a planet, you probably think of one of the planets in our own solar system, like Earth, Jupiter, or Mars. Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been like those in our solar ...

Neptune, the eighth and final planet from the sun, is known for its trails of wispy white clouds made up of crystals of frozen methane. Strong winds whip these clouds across the ice giant at ...

Here’s how it works. An exotic form of precipitation called 'diamond rain' — long thought to occur deep within ice giant planets — could be more common than previously thought.

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

The famous interstellar probe, Voyager 2, was the only spacecraft to do so in 1989, revealing Neptune’s atmosphere, rings, and moons. Voyager 2 also revealed that the ice giant has auroras ...

“So this hypothesis is very compelling.” The idea about the two ice giant planets — so-called because of the freezing conditions in which they formed — was put forward by Burkhard ...

But in reality, Neptune is far more of a light greenish blue. It's actually pretty similar in color to its fellow ice giant Uranus, also visited by Voyager 2. "We find that the planets are ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral ...

Under the ice: Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic ...