The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.

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

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

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 ...

The detection of Neptune's auroras will help astronomers better understand how particles from the sun interact with its atmosphere, providing a new area of study about ice giant planets.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do ...

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