Jupiter is the heavyweight champion of the planets, but Neptune is no slouch either. According to NASA, Neptune is about 17 t ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

or JWST (the same telescope that provided a crystal clear view of Neptune's rings in 2022). Webb is much more powerful than the handheld refracting telescope patented by Hans Lipperhey ...

The recent images aren’t the first time Webb has revealed unprecedented views of Neptune. In 2022, Neptune’s rings were revealed in stunning detail in images collected by the Webb telescope, which ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured Neptune's ghostly rings and revealed a band of clouds around a known vortex at ...

At its best, a one-person show invites you into the mind and heart of its creator, allowing you to walk a little in their ...

Neptune’s elusive auroras have finally been captured in stunning detail by NASA’s James ... with visible wavelength images of the planet and rings. The Hubble images were obtained during a joint ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...