The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

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

in the flyby of NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. However, imaging and confirming the auroras on Neptune has long evaded astronomers despite successful detections on Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

Auroras occur when electrically charged particles from space enter and collide with molecules in the atmosphere.

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted bright auroral activity on the most distant planet in our solar system.