Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. This was the second of 14 moons discovered at ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), marking a milestone in the study of the outer reaches of the solar system.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an ...

Launching on 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has had an out-of-this-world 35 years capturing some of the most ...

The storm feature had indeed become smaller than ever, measuring just 10,250 miles across, compared with the 14,500-mile diameter captured by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 just 35 years prior.

But Neptune, like Uranus, also has a lot going on under its hood. When Voyager 2 visited the ice giant in 1989, it captured an image of a dark spot in the southern hemisphere, roughly the size of ...

William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...

The planet is smaller than Neptune but bigger than Earth ... of the James Webb Space Telescope is like the burst of new thinking that followed NASA's Voyager mission. The twin Voyager spacecraft flew ...

The spectrum of this ionized molecule also suggests that Neptune’s upper atmosphere has cooled significantly since Voyager 2’s flyby 34 years ago. Aurorae have been seen on planets and moons ...