It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.
New images released Wednesday from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light. "It has been three decades since we last saw these ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view ...
"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...
A space telescope is a telescope that operates in space. Before their invention, astronomers observed celestial bodies using telescopes on Earth. These ground-based instruments could only see light ...
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...