The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Neptune and Uranus are the seventh and eighth planets from the sun, and as such share a lot of the same characteristics. Though they are different colors (Neptune is bluer than Uranus' cyan hue) and ...

The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it ...

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 ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

This image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel within Neptune Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large ...

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 ...