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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a Neptune-mass exoplanet with a density comparable to Earth’s. According to the research, the newly detected alien world, designated EPIC212521166 b,...

By analyzing archival radial velocity data, astronomers have detected a new warm-Neptune alien world. The newfound exoplanet, designated HD 183579b (or TOI-1055b) is about three and a half times larger...

A massive dark storm on Neptune that was first spotted two years ago has suddenly changed directions, leaving experts without answers. The storm was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope...

NASA has proposed a mission to explore Neptune’s mysterious and «weird» moon Triton, the coldest known object in the solar system. In a statement posted to its website, the space...

Unless you’re a pilot — or a member of the Justice League — anything that can travel at 770 miles per hour (1,238 kilometers per hour) might seem pretty darn...

A new catalog of exoplanet discoveries by NASA’s Kepler space telescope has revealed two distinct size groups of small alien worlds, a finding that likely will have a huge impact...

Unless you’re a pilot — or a member of the Justice League — anything that can travel at 770 miles per hour (1,238 kilometers per hour) might seem pretty darn...

— On September 23, 1846, the planet Neptune was discovered after being observed for the first time by Galileo Galilei in 1613, It has long been known that Galileo observed...

Neptune’s gigantic storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is now shrinking out of existence. This event is taking place three...