During its closest approach to Neptune in 1989, Voyager 2 gathered images in separate colors, which were then recombined into composites that didn't always reflect the "true" color of the planet ...

NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in the 1980s showed Neptune to be a rich blue and ...

Aug. 31, 2023 — A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

With Venus in Sagittarius square Neptune retrograde in Pisces, it’s essential to stay grounded and aware of your values as ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.

Neptune isn't the rich royal blue it was believed to be for decades, scientists say. The study by physicists at the University of Oxford found that the eighth planet in our solar system is in fact ...