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

After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James Webb Space ...

The detection of these auroras provides new insights into how Neptune's magnetic field interacts with solar particles and ...

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

Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...

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

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming ...

Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its auroras in infrared, and snap a picture of the majestic ice giant, Webb's image offers direct, visible evidence of Neptune's ...

Much about Uranus and Neptune remains unknown. These ice giant worlds have had just a single ... matching a suitable composition for the surface of the planet, and it gradually works its way ...

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.

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...