Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for ...

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

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

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

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

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

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...