Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

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

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

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

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

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

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