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

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists confirm the celestial lights on one of the most mysterious planets in our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the world with multiple space breakthroughs. Another one recently joined the list ...

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

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...

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

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

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

In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists say unique auroras are visible on either side ...

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

If Earth had Auroras in similar areas to Neptune, they wouldn't be in the poles - but near Japan and Argentina.

Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared ...