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 ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cyan or light blue areas seen on the right-side image of Neptune are an auroral glow ...

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

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Even at Neptune's incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of ...

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 ...

After nearly 36 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James ...

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