Neptune now reaches opposition this evening at 10 P.M. EDT, placing the planet at its best for viewing. However, with the nearly Full Moon (more than 99% lit and appearing Full to the naked eye) ...

High winds are prompting changes to the Neptune Festival Boardwalk Weekend schedule Sept. 25-27 in Virginia Beach, with several events moving indoors and others being canceled. The Art & Craft Show, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — High winds at the Oceanfront have prompted Neptune Festival officials to move several activities to the nearby Virginia Beach Convention Center, while continuing with ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Virginia Beach Neptune Festival is back for its 52nd year, bringing with it 20 sand sculptures crafted by 30 sculptors from 12 countries — along with a new live sculpting ...

“Its location at the edge of the solar system makes it a bit of a black hole from a knowledge point of view,” Dr. Craig O’Neill once said of the planet Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE.

Years ago, California Institute of Technology professor Konstantin Batygin was inspired to embark on a journey of discovering what lurked beyond Neptune. What he and his collaborator discovered was a ...

Neptune's moon and ring system stand out among the giant planets because of the strange imbalance between its one very large moon and its many tiny moons. Its largest moon, Triton, makes up more than ...

JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune’s ...

Neptune has 16 known moons. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently took a closer look at three of the innermost small moons – Larissa, Galatea and Proteus – and found something interesting; they ...

Imagine a world the size of Neptune, but instead of following the orderly path of its neighbors, it is racing headlong against the flow of its own solar system. In the case of the exoplanet TOI-1710 b ...

Neptune, the farthest planet from the sun, is surrounded by 16 known moons—and many of them are weirdos. Now, researchers propose that one of those oddballs, a wide-orbiting moon called Nereid, is the ...

Neptune’s moons have long provided evidence of a cataclysm four billion years ago. A new study suggests one moon may have made it through. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Neptune’s moon system is bizarre.