"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

Being the furthest planet from Earth, we don't know much about Neptune, but recent observations have revealed something glowing in its sky.

Capturing images of Neptune's auroras had remained out of reach until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turned its powerful eye towards the icy planet. "Turns out, actually imaging the ...

Even at Neptune's incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of ...

NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.

But auroras around our sun’s most distant planet, Neptune, have long eluded astronomers. That has changed with the powerful infrared instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope.

WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope detected infrared auroras on Neptune for the first time.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.