The enigmatic allure of Neptune has long captivated astronomers and scientists alike, with recent studies suggesting the ...

A mysterious spot has appeared on the surface of Neptune (Picture: PA) A mysterious dark spot on Neptune has been detected from Earth for the first time – but astronomers don’t know what it is.

Neptune is big, it’s blue, and it is a planet that can tear you apart if you happen to drop into one of its massive, ...

“When I looked at the flask under UV, the bright blue emission reminded me of the surface of Neptune,” Suleymanov says. Suleymanov’s research focuses on developing new methods for ...

Neptune, which like those other planets lacks a solid surface, possesses an extremely dynamic atmosphere mainly of hydrogen and helium, with a small amount of methane, atop a mantle mostly of ...

You don’t really hear about Neptune, do you? Not as often as the other planets, certainly. Space robots regularly provide snapshots of the surface of Mars and the clouds of Jupiter. Mercury is a ...

Hubble has discovered a new and mysterious "dark tempest" on Neptune that's 6,800 miles across. The space observatory also got a fresh look at a "giant polar cap" storm on Uranus that is swirling ...

It’s 30 years this week since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first and only close-up. Arriving on August 25, 1989, it marked the end of the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a brand-new blemish on the surface of Neptune. New images from the spacecraft reveal that a “dark vortex” has popped up in the planet’s atmosphere.

Neptune may have the fastest winds in the solar system, but they just skim across the top of the planet's atmosphere, according to a new study. The research, reported in the journal Nature, found ...