As a gas giant (or ice giant), Neptune has no solid surface. In fact, the blue-green disc we have all seen in photographs over the years is actually a bit of an illusion. What we see is actually ...

Still, the long-awaited discovery of auroras on Neptune is more than just a visual victory. These lights act like a cosmic X-ray, helping scientists trace the structure of Neptune’s magnetic ...

Neptune's equator is four times as long as Earth's. It is 17 times as heavy, though not as dense. We have one moon, while Neptune has 11. ... It was believed to have a vortex structure.

Also, because Neptune is so cold, its structure is different from Jupiter and Saturn. A mission to investigate the origin and structure of Neptune ...

Upon looking at images taken of Neptune between 1994 and 2022, ... which means its structure can generally flow around and mold itself over time. In conjunction with such movement, ...

An international team of researchers has now chipped away at the mystery by measuring the structure and properties of a form of ice known as ice XVIII and another superionic ice phase, ice XX. The ...

And they may also help to explain the unusual magnetic fields of the planets Uranus and Neptune, which contain a lot of water. ... Structure and properties of two superionic ice phases. Nature ...

The discovery of Uranus' and Neptune's non-dipolar, non-axisymmetric magnetic fields1,2,3,4 destroyed the picture—established by Earth, Jupiter and Saturn5,6—that planetary magnetic fields are ...

Neptune, a frigid planet decorated with supersonic storms, has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which zipped by in 1989.Consequently, little is definitively known about the planet ...