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." ...

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

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

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

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

After nearly 36 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James ...

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

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

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

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

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