Neptune, one of the farthest planets from the sun, has the longest orbit, with one year lasting 165 Earth years.

However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if something weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would find it weighs 110 pounds on ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...

Diamond rain on Uranus and Neptune: Recent research suggests that extreme pressures and temperatures deep within Uranus and Neptune create conditions where carbon atoms crystallize into diamonds ...

Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager ...

NASA’s James Webb space telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun. According to an article published by NASA on ...