Astronomers have been puzzling over a mystery on Neptune, and now they think they have unlocked its secret. The ice giant’s ghostly, cirrus-like clouds largely disappeared four years ago. Today, just ...

On Thursday (Aug. 17), astronomers announced quite an unexpected update about one of our solar system's ice giants, Neptune: It would appear that the azure world's clouds have all but disappeared.

When Voyager returned the first detailed pictures of Neptune in the summer of 1989, we got our first glimpse of the cloud features in its distant sky. Since then, astronomers have followed up those ...

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Neptune, the distant ice giant, has thrown astronomers for a loop as its once-constant clouds have mysteriously disappeared, revealing a previously unseen side of this mysterious planet. The latest ...

As distant as it is, orbiting nearly 3 million miles from the sun, we know a surprising amount about the atmosphere and weather conditions on Neptune. Dramatic storms have been observed there ...

With temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Celsius on its dayside, LTT 9779 is one of the few known planets in the "hot ...

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