The latest news from around North Texas. The first full moon of 2026 will take place on January 3rd. That moon, known as the ...

From Jupiter at its brightest to a dazzling Saturn-Moon-Neptune alignment, here’s what to watch in the night sky in January ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it ...

NASA and Europe's Hubble Space Telescope keeps an eye on distant planets, watching for changes in their weather. Hubble has discovered a new and mysterious "dark tempest" on Neptune that's 6,800 miles ...

The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...

Three newly discovered worlds are among the smallest and nearest we've ever detected. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS — a super-powerful orbiting telescope designed to hunt for ...

A telescope on Earth has snapped pictures of Neptune at least as clear as those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The trick? Taking the twinkle out of stars. Released by the European Southern ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...