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

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

In a major breakthrough, the James Webb space telescope of NASA has for the first time captured auroral activity on Neptune, ...

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

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

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...