Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the heaviest Neptune-like planet yet — one more than four times the mass of our solar system's Neptune — yet it remains a mystery how the world might have ...

Warm Neptune-size exoplanets are not nearly as common as super-Earths or hot Jupiters — and we are now closer to finding out why. Our galaxy apparently has a dearth of Neptune-size worlds that orbit ...

The discovery of a Neptune-sized exoplanet around a massive star could explain why such planets are rarely found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Researchers have discovered a new planet the size of Neptune, approximately 32 light-years away from Earth. A new study, published in the scientific journal Nature, details the discovery of AU Mic b, ...

In the spring of 2009, the Kepler Mission commenced high-precision photometry on nearly 156,000 stars to determine the frequency and characteristics of small exoplanets, conduct a guest observer ...

Scientists have discovered a giant new storm on Neptune that’s about the size of our planet. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. The ...

For decades, Uranus and Neptune have carried the tidy label of “ice giants,” shorthand for worlds built mostly from frozen ...

NASA's Kepler and Hubble space telescopes have spotted evidence of a Neptune-size satellite orbiting the Jupiter-like planet Kepler-1625b, which lies about 8,000 light-years from Earth, a new study ...

Assuming you’ve accepted Pluto’s demotion, Uranus and Neptune are the two planets in our Solar System farthest from Earth. That distance means humanity is still learning a lot about them. Some of ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

A Neptune-size planet beyond the solar system has telltale traces of water vapor in its atmosphere, making it the smallest exoplanet known to have the wet stuff yet, scientists say. Several massive ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet, christened Kepler-410A b. The planet is about the size of Neptune and orbits the brightest star in a double star system 425 light years from Earth ...