A wide-angle view of Neptune from JWST shows the planet and its rings against a background of hundreds of distant galaxies. The bright “star” is actually Neptune’s largest moon Triton, which ...

Neptune's 164-year orbit means its northern pole, at the top of this image, is just out of view for astronomers, but the Webb images hint at an intriguing brightness in that area.

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and was the first to be predicted before it was discovered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

Neptune is way, way out there, orbiting the Sun some 2.8 billion miles away. That’s likely why a new analysis of some old photos of the ice giant have just revealed something a bit funny: We ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according ...

Voyager 2 also took Neptune's upper atmosphere temperature. Webb scientists were surprised to learn that the planet has cooled over the past 34 years by hundreds of degrees. It's now about half as ...

Neptune's orbit takes 165 Earth years, so it moves only a little bit in the time it takes us to get around the sun. Thanks to this, Neptune goes into opposition once every 367 days on average.

NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got a clear view of a sub-Neptune exoplanet's atmosphere, offering insight into a common-yet-mysterious world.