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

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

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

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...

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

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

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

After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...

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

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

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 ...

(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...