Ever heard of Neptune's mysterious dark spots? These swirling storms are like the planet's playful freckles, appearing and ...

Astronomers have known for a long time that Neptune’s surface occasionally becomes dotted with dark spots. These large discolorations in its atmosphere can be linked to high pressure areas ...

Venus and Saturn shine before dawn, with Neptune tucked between them — see if you can spot the ice giant with binoculars or a ...

Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond ...

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

similar in appearance to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, it saw a storm 13,000 kilometres across, which was subsequently named the Great Dark Spot. However, the ...

Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

Astronomers searching for a ninth planet in our solar system say they've found a "good" candidate far beyond Neptune ... are hoping it will be able to spot Planet Nine within a year or two ...

This planet, now officially called GI 410 b, is classified as a sub-Neptune, which means it is larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. The discovery was made on April 4 using the radial ...