"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 ...
Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.
Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...
After nearly 36 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James ...
WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...
"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...