Tag: neptune
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Feb 15, 2018Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. -
Feb 9, 2018NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to NASA Goddard’s Amy Simon, who studies the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. -
Feb 8, 2018NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, talks to NASA Goddard’s Amy Simon, who studies the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. -
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.
