Neptune in Aries 2025, which begins on March 30th, brings the outer planet into the fiery first sign of the zodiac and upends ...

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

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists confirm the celestial lights on one of the most mysterious planets in our ...

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

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

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

The ice giant officially joins the lineup of planets with auroras, completing the set of all eight planets in the Solar ...

NASA unveiled the first visuals of auroras on Neptune, captured by the James Webb Telescope. These auroras provide crucial ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...

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