Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

When Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, it only observed 10 cloud patterns on the planet. As technology improved, higher resolution images taken from Earth revealed fainter clouds. The clouds ...

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...

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The bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern was first discovered in 1988 ... until NASA's Cassini spacecraft observed the ringed planet up-close years later. Nothing like the hexagon has ever been seen ...

In this scenario, a planet can evolve from a temperate state ... of the study describes the appearance of a very peculiar cloud pattern, increasing the runaway effect, and making the process ...

The planet is so remote that the Voyager 2 mission ... were exaggerated by image processing to showcase the swirling cloud patterns more prominently. New research published this year rebalanced ...