Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neptune, known as the planet of compassion, spirituality, intuition and everything mystical, creative and healing, is a modern ...

Scientists have helped solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surface of Neptune – the most distant planet in our solar system. A new study sheds light on the chemical make-up of the planet, which ...

Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune ...

Neptune was expected to be cold, silent, and lifeless. Instead, NASA found a planet filled with supersonic storms and unexplained heat. Deep beneath its clouds, something powerful is driving chaos ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we're still teasing out clues ...

Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas giant around one of these bright, but short-lived, stars, right ...

Before the Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus and Neptune, these two distant planets were thought to be cold, dead worlds on the outskirts of the solar system. The historic spacecraft visit, however, revealed ...

Neptune, planet of dreams, drugs, vision, and oblivion, is going retrograde this summer. The mystical planet will slow its roll from July 2 until December 7. Neptune is the planet of fantasy and ...