There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

Chinese scientists propose 2033 Neptune orbiter mission Scientists are proposing China’s first ice giant mission, aiming to ...

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

Triton isn’t just any moon – it’s one of the most mysterious objects in the entire solar system. In this video, we explore what makes Neptune’s largest moon so strange, from its backward ...

Triton likely originated as a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt — the giant asteroid belt beyond Neptune where Pluto and other dwarf planets reside.

The contrast in many images of Neptune was enhanced to enable scientists to better see the bands that stretch across the ice giant, as well as its clouds and storms.

Last week, a new James Webb Space Telescope image illuminated Neptune in a never-before-seen light. In the shot, Neptune appears as a glowing orb with its rings fully visible, and its moon Triton ...