Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

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Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system planets' interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ...

What comes through now serves as a bridge between the dream and the self that’s finally ready to live it Ready to tie up those loose ends? On Dec. 10, Neptune — the planet of dreams, spirituality and ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...

The mighty, aquatic Neptune stations direct on December 10. Neptune is the planet of dreams, idealism, shimmering possibilities – but also illusions – and went into his annual five-month retrograde on ...

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

Snow isn't always white; algae can make it look green, red, or orange, and scientists are trying to understand how and why these colorful patches appear.