Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for ...

Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars as they make their way through the night sky. A bright moon lights up the desert beneath the planets and stars in the sky, while comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria ...

It probably spent nearly all of the past 4.5 billion years in a deep freeze beyond Neptune, inside the comet Wild 2 (pronounced VILT-two). Decades ago Wild 2 somehow got nudged into an orbit that ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras. Scientists have long suspected that the distant ice giant hosts shimmering light displays, based on ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...