Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just one ...

For a long time, it was unclear what auroral activity, if any, might be present on Uranus and Neptune, so far from the Sun: Uranus orbits at around 19 times the distance between the Sun and Earth ...

Astronomers have been searching for auroral activity on Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, since NASA’s ... 2 revealed is tilted by 47 degrees relative to the planet’s axis of ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.