has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming, even though similar areas of trapped solar energetic particles ...

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 ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

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 ... nitrogen can create green, blue, or pink.

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 ...

Scientists had long believed that distant ice giant ... images of Neptune's ionosphere, the electrically charged part of its upper atmosphere where auroras are produced, to show the planet's ...

When NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune in 1989, it found tantalising hints of aurora activity in the ice giant’s clouds ... of light emitted by the planet. In 2023, researchers used ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras. Scientists have long suspected that the distant ice giant hosts shimmering light displays, based on ...