Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...