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LONDON Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside our solar system, a blue gas giant some 63 light years away. An international team of astronomers working ...

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Uranus and Neptune look a lot more alike than previously known. Uranus was believed to be greenish and Neptune a rich blue. But, as it turns out, both ice giants are greenish blue, according to ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from beyond Pluto's orbit, Earth appears as nothing more than a "pale blue dot." In a new study, ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the color of a planet beyond our solar system: It's blue, but not because there's water on its surface. It doesn't even have a "surface." Instead, the ...

Astronomers have found a deep azure blue planet orbiting a star 63 light years away – the first time they’ve been able to determine the actual color of a planet outside our solar system, NASA and the ...