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

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

Typically, a planet's magnetic field funnels the material into its atmosphere. But even planets without a field can still ...

Webb obtained the data behind the image in June 2023, when its NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) observed both of Neptune's hemispheres. Having obtained near infrared data from ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...

The eerie glow of Neptune's aurora has been revealed for the first time in new images collected by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right ... astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras.