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

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

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

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.

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

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

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Scientists believe the MFF’s ice, protected by layers of dust or ash, could reveal clues about Mars' ancient, water-rich past ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.