A new resident is making a splash at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center—Neptune, the blue lobster. Neptune is a ...

Neptune is big, it’s blue, and it is a planet that can tear you apart if you happen to drop into one of its massive, ...

Neptune, one of our most distant planetary neighbors, may not be the color we've always thought it was. Previous images of far-off planets showed Neptune as being a deep electric blue, while ...

The deep blue false color image became the widely circulated image and it was mostly forgotten what the true color of Neptune is. Older reporters and scientists still remember, but the general public ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color.

But in reality, Neptune is far more of a light greenish blue. It's actually pretty similar in color to its fellow ice giant Uranus, also visited by Voyager 2.

This allowed them to rebalance the composite color images and show that Uranus and Neptune are a similar shade of greenish blue, with Neptune coming off a tad more blue due to an extra layer of haze.