If Earth had Auroras in similar areas to Neptune, they wouldn't be in the poles - but near Japan and Argentina.

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.

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

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

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

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

In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists say unique auroras are visible on either side ...

Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists confirm the celestial lights on one of the most mysterious planets in our ...

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

Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared ...