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

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

With frigid temperatures and ferocious winds, our solar system's outermost planet may be last but it's certainly ... Despite its extremely cold atmosphere, the interior of Neptune is far hotter than ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...

Auroras are spectacular manifestations of the action space has on a planet. More specifically ... It was only natural, then, for Sol's second ice giant, Neptune, to have auroras as well, but ...

New Images Reveal What Neptune and Uranus Really Look Like Jan. 4, 2024 — Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green ... system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus.

Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within ... t Pluto "The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then ...