Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

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

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...

It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn ...

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 ...

Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...

Space telescopes such as Hubble can still see Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing — but only as a thin line across the planet. For backyard stargazers, the rings have been shrinking from ...

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

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

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...