The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

New images released Wednesday from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light. "It has been three decades since we last saw these ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings in more than 30 ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The cyan ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...

Like Earth, Uranus and Neptune have seasons, which likely drive some of the features in their atmospheres. But their seasons are much longer than on Earth, spanning decades rather than months. The new ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...