A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for the first time. Thanks to JWST, the planet’s elusive glow has been measured ...

The eerie glow of Neptune's aurora has been revealed for the first time in new images collected by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...

Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The small new world -- temporarily named ...

The two most distant planets in our solar system look more like each other than was previously thought, experts have found. Many people think of Neptune as being a rich blue colour, and Uranus ...

The first direct evidence for auroras on Neptune has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble ...

A quick guide to the planet Neptune, which is composed mainly of water. It has many moons and the fastest winds in the solar system. They blow up to 2000km per hour. NOTE: This clip was factually ...

Around this star are two planets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune. These are types of planets that are absent from our own solar system, but paradoxically constitute the most common classes of ...