This image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope. A dark spot can be seen in the upper right. Astronomers have observed a huge, mysterious dark spot on the ...

(CNN) — Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color. New space and ...

Point a laser at the planet Neptune tonight and it'll take 4 hours for the beam to arrive. For light itself, the fastest thing in the universe, to need so much time to get there, you'd guess the ...

This image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope. At each pixel within Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its constituent colors or wavelengths. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's first images of Neptune, the mysterious ice giant that orbits in the far reaches of the outer solar system, were so spectacular that even astronomers could barely ...

The first-ever ground-based image of a dark spot on Neptune has revealed vital clues as to the origin of such anticyclonic vortices. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a gorgeous image of Neptune, its rings, and seven of the planet's moons. One of Neptune's moons shines so brightly, that it could be mistaken for ...

Neptune, a cold, unexplored world farthest from the sun, is getting its time in the light after the James Webb Space Telescope captured new images of the planet for the first time in decades. Last ...

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