Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.

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

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

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

Auroras occur when energetic particles, often from the sun, are caught in a planet's magnetic field and collide with the ...

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

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

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

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

Neptune has auroras, but they’re different from what we see on Earth. Now, thanks to the James Webb telescope, we know what ...

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