despite the commonly-held belief that Neptune is a deep azure and Uranus has a pale cyan appearance. Astronomers have long known that most modern images of the two planets do not accurately ...

By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star ...

The atmospheres of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune may be separated into layers that don't mix, like oil and water.

Using NASA ‘s TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and observations from ground-based telescopes in Australia, ...

A planetary parade consisting of six planets, with a seventh to join, will be visible from the end of January 2025.

Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...

A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes A photo of Neptune, taken by the Voyager 2 probe, with the ...

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.

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 ...