Humankind is seeing Neptune’s rings in a whole new light thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. In an infrared image released September 21, Neptune and its gossamer diadems of dust take on an ...

Neptune reached opposition at 9:00 A.M. EDT, rendering it visible throughout the night. Neptune, at magnitude 7.7, is not visible to the unaided eye but can be located 2.7° northeast of Saturn using ...

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Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence of a long-standing theory about Planet Nine, or Planet X. For years, ...

Scientists are wasting no time in pointing the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope all over the Universe, as well as into our own backyard. Recently, astronomers took data on the eighth planet ...

The New Horizons spacecraft will take images of the ice giants from "behind." NASA is asking amateur astronomers to help the agency study the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Next month, NASA will be ...