Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.

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

Some U.S. states could be treated with a northern lights display due a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed auroras on Neptune for the first time. These are only faint and occur in an ...

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

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

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

Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

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

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...