Assuming you’ve accepted Pluto’s demotion, Uranus and Neptune are the two planets in our Solar System farthest from Earth. That distance means humanity is still learning a lot about them. Some of ...

Lying at the very outskirts of our solar system, the ice giant Neptune has long represented both a challenge and a mystery to astronomers and space explorers alike. The dark and cold planet, the ...

For the first time in decades, a new tiny moon has been found in orbit around the gas giant Neptune, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Hippocamp, now known as Neptune’s ...

Our solar system has a few new entries with the recent discovery of three moons of Uranus and Neptune. These ice giant planets are so far away that it is difficult to detect small moons orbiting them, ...

Astronomers have discovered a moon with a unique orbit consisting of oscillating patterns. This allows it to avoid collision with a neighboring satellite as they whirl around Neptune—a process they ...

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The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of three new moons in our solar system Feb. 23. Uranus has one additional moon, while Neptune has picked up two ...

The planets may get top billing in the solar system, but they are far outnumbered by the moons. There are hundreds, and they come in all kinds of varieties, like a cosmic tray of assorted chocolates.