Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

A new study suggests that Uranus and Neptune may have more rock in their interiors than previous estimates. The study ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...

Three newly discovered worlds are among the smallest and nearest we've ever detected. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS — a super-powerful orbiting telescope designed to hunt for ...

The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...

This image shows Neptune observed with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel within Neptune Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large ...