Point a laser at the planet Neptune tonight and it'll take 4 hours for the beam to arrive. For light itself, the fastest thing in the universe, to need so much time to get there, you'd guess the ...

Screaming winds of infernal violence alternate with periods of dead calm as one nears the surface of Uranus, according to a new analysis of the gas giant. The turbulent weather patterns on gaseous ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --Thanks to a new computer model, planetary scientists now have a better idea of the types of chemicals hiding beneath Neptune's icy surface. Often, scientists attempt to replicate ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

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Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the gas giant Saturn as Neptune lurks unseen nearby. The waxing gibbous moon ...

Scientists have long assumed that, like rocky planets such as Earth, sub-Neptunes begin with molten magma oceans. Their thick hydrogen-rich atmospheres were thought to trap heat efficiently, allowing ...

In our solar system, the two outermost planets of Uranus and Neptune are something of an oddity. Although both planets are of a similar mass and are similarly distant from the sun, the two are ...

Although this image may look like a colorful celestial body, it’s actually a round-bottom flask with a crystallized tetraphenylethylene derivative irradiated with ultraviolet light. Abdusalom ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spied a brand-new blemish on the surface of Neptune. New images from the spacecraft reveal that a “dark vortex” has popped up in the planet’s atmosphere. No, this has ...

If Kepler 452b applied for the position of most Earthlike exoplanet, it would boast an impressive résumé. The newly discovered world (illustrated above) mimics our planet with a 385-day orbit around a ...

OWI, a 40-year-old loudspeaker company specializing in outdoor and commercial audio products, recently introduced its new NepTune-B surface-mount loudspeaker. The West Coast audio company explains ...