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

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

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

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Spectacular displays of the Northern Lights have been seen over recent nights with the potential for more to come.

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Neptune's auroras in unprecedented detail, confirming decades-long suspicions and ...

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

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

“Most of these particles are deflected away, but some become captured in the Earth’s magnetic field, accelerating down ...

You've probably seen or experienced most of these common science phenomena before, but you may not have thought about why ...