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

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.

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.

The right moment to release this special-edition MoonSwatch into the wild came earlier this week when Christie’s included it ...

It's covered in craters, and it's dark in color. So you might think ... we finally reach the farthest planet from the sun. Neptune. ♪ ♪ Wrapped in a dense blue blanket, Neptune has no ...

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

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...