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.

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

Uranus, the ice-giant planet that tilts dramatically on its side as it orbits the Sun, has long puzzled scientists. When NASA ...

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.

Astronomers are interested in how this tilt affects the atmosphere of Uranus, as well as how the atmosphere works there in ...

The correct shades of the planets have now been ... Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its ...

Voyager 2 also revealed that the ice giant has auroras—magnetically induced displays that light up the skies when charged particles interact with the planet’s atmosphere. Scientists collected ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune’s lights remained elusive for decades Margherita ...

"Kudos to the team for realizing my dream!" But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras ...