NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear images of auroral activity on Neptune, the 8th planet from the Sun. For years, scientists had only speculated about the presence of ...

Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

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

But hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light when the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune in 1989 ...

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

The dazzling aurora borealis was visible from New Hampshire and Vermont, south to Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...

Why do the northern lights have different colors? The color of the aurora depends on which gas is being excited by the ...

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

Four space explorers will launch with SpaceX next week on a polar orbital mission that could unlock a new area in space for future spaceflights.

The phenomenon - where the moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and only partly obscures the star - is expected to be ...

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...