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 ...

After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James Webb Space ...

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

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

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

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

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