Aurora, commonly known as the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere, occur when charged particles from the Sun collide ...

The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky.

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." NASA's Parker ... protection system and other ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets ... only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and they're usually spotted ...

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 ...

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