James Webb captures crystal clear view of Neptune’s iconic rings
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been having a field day with the solar system recently. After imaging Jupiter, ...
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Scientists created diamonds from plastic bottles and then used them to study giant gas planets
This suggests "diamond rain" may be quite common on other planets.
Why is Neptune blue?
Clouds of methane absorb red wavelengths, but reflect mostly bluish light.
Jovian planets — the giants of solar systems
They're big
Astronomers find the stripped core of a gas giant for the first time
The distant planetary body could offer clues about what lies beneath Jupiter's thick atmosphere.
30th Neptune: the anniversary of an emblematic photo
It's been 30 years since Neptune got its close up.
Hubble captured the first evidence of a Great Dark Spot storm forming on Neptune
The data taught us a lot about how weather works on gas giants.
Astronomers discover Neptune’s Hippocamp
It's only 34 km across.
Neptune’s Great Dark Spot is also shrinking
Another one bites the dust.
A China-sized dark vortex that smells like farts is slowly fading away on Neptune
Good thing Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun.
Diamond rain of Neptune and Uranus mimicked in the lab by scientists
Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!
New dwarf planet discovered in outskirts of solar system beyond Neptune
Pluto and Ceres have a new neighbor.
Astronomers discover huge hydrogen cloud around exoplanet
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified a warm Neptune-sized planet that is "bleeding" a huge hydrogen cloud - thus ...
Neptune’s ‘lost’ moon spotted for first time in 20 years
A lost moon of Neptune has not been seen since its discovery in the late 1980s - until now, that ...
New moon discovered orbiting Neptun
An US astronomer recently reported that he and his team have discovered a new moon orbiting the eighth and farthest ...
Super-dense celestial bodies may be new types of planet
Despite all the magnificent advancements in the field, we are still in the infancy of our research on extraterrestrial planets, ...
Oceans of diamonds on Uranus
A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and ...