NASA proclaimed 2024 to be “Heliophysics Big Year,” and with good reason. Heliophysics is the study of the sun, and 2024 gave ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

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

The remote Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, which Vice President JD Vance is visiting on Friday, is the U.S.

Auroras are an electrical phenomenon when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a planet’s ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...

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

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

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

A neutron star is defying the rules of the universe, emitting radio pulses from both its ends while moving extremely slowly.

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