A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

They reveal the planet’s origins—that Neptune likely migrated inward sometime during its early history. Neptune’s methane gas comes from methane ice, and scientists think such ice only forms ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

Uranus and Neptune come next. Whilst unmanned spacecraft have approached the gas planets, actual landings are not possible because of the lack of solid surfaces. The gas planets are Jupiter ...

and the smallest gas planet, Neptune, as well as a physical gap in space between Mars and Jupiter. Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goe ...

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets ... gas giant, mostly known for its spectacular rings, may have cheated a little to fit in with its contemporaries, Jupiter, Neptune ...

This gas, though abundant, seems to have a complex impact on the atmospheric circulation of both planets. High-altitude clouds on Neptune cast their shadows on lower ones. On Uranus and Neptune, heat ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...