The disappearance of the gas giant's clouds is tied to the sun's 11-year cycle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. All of Neptune's ...

Weather forecast for Neptune: After sunny weather for the past few Earth years, we’ll see increasingly more clouds over the next few years. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first ...

Neptune receives a tiny fraction of the sunlight that strikes Earth, yet somehow, that’s enough to transform the clouds of this faraway world. The main driver of cloud formation is generally the ...

After analyzing 30 years of data, scientists came to a surprising conclusion about an ice giant in our solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

High above the familiar cotton wool of weather systems, a stranger kind of cloud is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The ice giant’s ...