Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Imagine a planet the size of Neptune, itself about four times the size of our home planet. Instead of orbiting our Sun, this ...

But planets the size of Neptune (in the middle of the plot) are scarce close to their star. This so-called desert of hot Neptunes shows that such alien worlds are rare, or, they were plentiful at ...

On Neptune far out in the solar system it’s a different story—but what happens on the ice giant planet nevertheless appears to be inextricably linked to the same solar cycle. Having looked at ...

This "exomoon" is not like any in our cosmic neighbourhood: it's the size of Neptune and orbits a planet the size of Jupiter - but with 10 times the mass. The object was spotted in data from Nasa ...

According to NASA, the planet is half the size of Neptune and could be gas-rich, though it's possible that it's rocky instead. K2-288Bb is located in the Taurus constellation and is about 226 ...

Moons of Neptune: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons: Galatea, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Proteus, Larissa, and Triton. The planet's large and ...

This "exomoon" is not like any in our cosmic neighbourhood: it's the size of Neptune and orbits a planet the size of Jupiter - but with 10 times the mass. The object was spotted in data from Nasa ...