Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

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

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

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

Neptune harbors cosmic secrets, in part because of its distance from Earth. But researchers have just unlocked one of the planet's mysteries by using the unique capabilities of the James Webb Space ...

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

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

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

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Hycean planets, theoretical exoplanets with deep oceans and thick hydrogen atmospheres, could be key targets for detecting ...