Tag: neptune
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Aug 12, 2017A new study sheds light on the chemical make-up of the planet, which lies around 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun. -
Jun 21, 2017A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious “ice giant” planets Uranus and Neptune has been released. -
Apr 5, 2017Astronomers have discovered a “lost” planet that is nearly the size of Neptune and tucked away in a solar system 3,000 light years from Earth. -
Dec 19, 2016A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary systems. -
Jun 25, 2016New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. -
Jan 29, 2015Two phenomena known to inhibit the potential habitability of planets — tidal forces and vigorous stellar activity — might instead help chances for life on certain planets orbiting low-mass stars. -
Oct 30, 2014Understanding how permanent an atmosphere is, where it came from and most importantly, what it is made of are important factors in habitability. -
Aug 26, 2014Using old data, scientists have provided new details about Neptune's moon Triton. -
Aug 25, 2014NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune--its last major crossing until its close encounter with Pluto on July 14, 2015 -
Jul 23, 2014Inside gas giants, carbon is crushed at pressures we could only imagine - that is, until the National Ignition Laboratory found a way to make it happen here on Earth.
