The idea of colonizing gas giants like Neptune and Uranus is often overlooked, with most of the focus on their moons like Triton. But what if the planets themselves, specifically Neptune, could become ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...

In this edition of WTOP’s monthly space feature, “What’s up in the sky?” Greg Redfern tells you how to see the moon, planets, stars and Perseid meteor shower.

NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system's outermost planet Wednesday taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures taken in July show not only Neptune’s thin rings, but its ...

Saturn and Neptune rose with the Moon on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, creating a rare sky event believed to carry emotional and spiritual significance for certain zodiac signs.

Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it ...

Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear for a few days. For the next several months, Simon said the rings will “remain very thin” to our eyes.

It's even colder if looking at Neptune's whole surface, with temps averaging -200C (-330F). And the planet's troposphere, or weather layer, averages a brutally chilly -223C (-370F).