New JWST image reveals full glory of Neptune, its moons, and rings "It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings." Eric Berger – Sep 21, 2022 9:18 am | 157 ...

Scientists are still in the dark about what is causing a huge shadowy patch to appear against the blue background of Neptune’s sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When Voyager 2 encountered Neptune in 1989, it saw that the blue ice giant’s northern hemisphere was adorned with a huge, dark anticyclonic vortex that was thousands of miles in diameter. Then ...

With its vanishing clouds and now a large dark spot, the planet Neptune appears to be going through some things. Here’s a bit about why the eighth planet in our solar system is causing all this ...

There are 11 versions in bright colorways inspired by the solar system, but on launch one of these, the all-blue Mission to Neptune, was found to leave blue traces on its owners’ wrists for a ...

The last time Neptune's rings were seen in detail was during a flyby in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it journeyed beyond the solar system and into interstellar space. That historic flyby ...

While Neptune’s methane gas makes the planet appear blue in Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager 2 images, the James Webb Space Telescope uses infrared light that can’t be seen by the human eye.

At each pixel within Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its constituent colors or wavelengths. The image to the right combines all colors captured by MUSE into a “natural” view of Neptune, ...

The bright blue star to the upper left of Neptune is actually the planet’s moon Triton. open image in gallery The latest James Webb Space Telescope image shows a glowing Neptune amidst a sea of ...

No spacecraft has visited Neptune since Voyager 2 swooped past in 1989 on its way out of the Solar System, but from a vantage point 4.4 billion kilometers away, Webb is showing us Neptune in a ...

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has concluded that our popular ideas about the colors of the planets Uranus and Neptune are all wrong. Far from being two distinct shades, they ...