When Neptune is positioned 180 degrees from the Sun's ecliptic longitude, meaning that Neptune, Earth, and the Sun are aligned in a near-straight line, it is referred to as Neptune's opposition. The ...

What is Neptune's Opposition? Understanding the Phenomenon of Opposition. Imagine when Neptune, Earth, and the ...

Astrophotographers and stargazers are in for a treat this week as Saturn and Neptune reach their brightest in days. According ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

Sky lovers assemble! There is a lot going on in the next few days – stuff for every interest, location, and ability. We have ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Astronomers have discovered that many sub-Neptune exoplanets, once thought to host vast oceans, are far less watery than ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...