Astronomers May Have Found the First Direct Hint of Planet Nine
Illustration of hypothetical Planet Nine. Credit: ZME Science. For years, astronomers have wondered whether another huge planet is…
Top Comments: Superionic Ice and the Magnetic Fields of the Outer Planets
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The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026
The proximity to the waning moon offers a good opportunity for spotting them. To the naked eye, they…
Aug. 12 to feature a 6-planet parade, solar eclipse, meteor shower and new moon
The most recent fireball that lit up the night sky across several states in the U.S. was captured…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined
Before the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus and Neptune, these two distant planets were thought to be cold,…
The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets
We have an idea of what the solar system’s past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However,…
Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre
The farthest planet from the Sun has a rather strange collection of moons in its orbit. That may…
Neptune’s odd moon Nereid may be sole survivor from ancient cosmic shake-up
Neptune’s strangest moon Nereid may not be a captured object after all, but a survivor from the planet’s…
How and when to see it
This weekend, on Feb. 28, we’ll have the chance to see something really cool happen in the night…
Scientists Discover Bizarre Form Of Water That’s Both Solid And Liquid
Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in…
How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…