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When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term partner.

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just captured Neptunes's rings in all of their splendor, and they're absolutely beautiful.

James Webb Space Telescope

Usually You Can’t See Rings on Neptune. With the James Webb, Though… Wow

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers may have spotted evidence for a new planet orbiting one of the closest stars in the star system called Alpha Centauri.

Science & Energy

Astronomers May Have Spotted a New Planet Around the Nearest Star

By Victor Tangermann

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped

By Victor Tangermann

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

By Victor Tangermann

New NASA research found that Neptune has two moons that are locked in a strange orbital dance in order to "maintain the peace."

Science & Energy

NASA: Neptune’s Moons “Dance” to Avoid Smashing Into Each Other

By Kristin Houser

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a "forbidden planet" in an orbit previously thought to be impossible.

Astronomers Find Distant “Forbidden Planet” In “Neptunian Desert”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed to send a spacecraft called "Trident" to Neptune's largest moon Triton.

NASA Proposes Mission to Neptune’s Largest Moon Triton

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have finally figured out why Hippocamp, a tiny moon orbiting Neptune, is able to exist despite its close proximity to a much-larger moon.

Science & Energy

Meet Hippocamp, “The Moon That Shouldn’t Be There”

By Kristin Houser

Triton: The Strangest Moon in Our Solar System

Triton: The Strangest Moon in Our Solar System

By Miguel Santos

Trans-Neptunian Space: Pushing the Boundaries of the Solar System

From Quarks to Quasars

Trans-Neptunian Space: Pushing the Boundaries of the Solar System

By Jean McKinney