Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

Because the solar system's contents formed from a disk around the sun, we would expect the orbits of everything orbiting the sun to keep relatively close to the plane of that disk. However, some don’t ...

The eighth and most distant planet from the sun, Neptune, reaches opposition with the sun on Sept.23, when it will be in its best position for viewing for the year. Neptune is too faint to see with ...

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to lurk far beyond Neptune and tug subtly on everything around it. The suspected ...

Welcome to the enchanting realm of Neptune. In its orbit, artists express their most profound ideas, musicians strum their guitars, and spiritualists connect with the ethers, where the boundaries ...

Neptune, planet of dreams, drugs, vision, and oblivion, is going retrograde this summer. The mystical planet will slow its roll from July 2 until December 7. Neptune is the planet of fantasy and ...

New research by a University of Victoria PhD student is challenging popular theory about how part of our solar system formed. At the meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division of ...