The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through ...

Auroras occur when electrically charged particles from space enter and collide with molecules in the atmosphere.

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 ...

The detection of these auroras provides new insights into how Neptune's magnetic field interacts with solar particles and ...

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

Paper is an apt analogy here because Saturn's rings are very thin. According to NASA, Saturn's rings average about 30 feet in ...

Aurora, commonly known as the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere, occur when charged particles from the Sun collide ...