Astronomers have known for a long time that Neptune’s surface occasionally becomes dotted with dark spots. These large discolorations in its atmosphere can be linked to high pressure areas ...

Four planets in the solar system are about to appear in alignment in the night sky. Here's how stargazers will be able to see ...

Lights glow in the skies of Uranus, too. But auroras around our sun’s most distant planet, Neptune, have long eluded astronomers. That has changed with the powerful infrared instruments aboard ...

find a dark spot away from city or street lights. Four of the planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars—will be visible to the naked eye. Neptune and Uranus will be too far to view without ...

similar in appearance to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. When Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, it saw a storm 13,000 kilometres across, which was subsequently named the Great Dark Spot. However, the ...

(courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria University), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Stefanie Milam (NASA-GSFC)) The first direct evidence for ...