NASA's TESS satellite has discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet closely orbiting its host star. It's just the fourth object of ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

Neptune's moon names and discovery dates Here is a list of Neptune's 14 named moons and the dates of their discovery according to NASA . Despina: Discovered in July 1989 by the Voyager 2 science team.

Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea. Its largest moon, Triton, was discovered in 1846 by English astronomer William Lassell, 17 days after German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle ...

Astronomers discovered the moon using the Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, which also assisted in the discovery of the two new moons orbiting Neptune.

When Hubble discovered new dark spots on Neptune in 2018, Irwin’s team seized its chance to conduct Earth-based observations with the Very Large Telescope and its Multi Unit Spectroscopic ...

Scientific discovery is a funny thing. Sometimes it occurs quite accidentally, sometimes after a conscious search. A perfect example of the latter is the discovery of the planet Neptune ...

The newly discovered moon around Uranus is the 28th known moon around that planet, and the moons found around Neptune bring the known total to 16. People on meds for depression are showing fewer ...

Discovery of Neptune, in This Week’s Open Thread Join Slate’s open thread for the week of September 23. Sept 23, 2024 12:01 AM. This NASA Voyager 2 image released 21 August, 2001 shows that ...