“Neptune’s previous period of low cloud activity was not nearly as dramatic ... begin deep in its atmosphere and then rise to the surface, and it is unclear what role that might play.

Neptune, which is four times as ... should hint at the composition of Triton’s surface, and could show changes indicating geological activity. “Triton is a geologically active world ...

Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured ... and minerals on the surface. For a long time, it was unclear what auroral activity, if any, might be present on ...

Space robots regularly provide snapshots of the surface of Mars and ... we don’t see much cloud activity at all—which is very odd.” Also odd: Neptune’s seasonal temperatures.

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

“And by golly, it was.” Astronomers have been searching for auroral activity on Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by it in 1989 and picked ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral ...

This marked the first time that these methane isotopologues have been discovered on objects beyond Neptune ... on the surface of Eris and Makemake indicate they may have geothermal activity ...

Trust the process and embrace what is coming to the surface, Taurus. With Neptune slipping into your numinous 12th house of intuition, healing, spirituality and subconscious realms — Neptune’s ...

But solar activity increases, climaxing in the middle of the cycle and causing the sun to roil with giant eruptions. NASA's Voyager 2 mission, the only spacecraft to visit Neptune, was unable to ...