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 ...

Neptune harbors cosmic secrets, in part because of its distance from Earth. But researchers have just unlocked one of the planet's mysteries by using the unique capabilities of the James Webb Space ...

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 ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO ...