The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas, complete ...

This animated GIF illustrates Uranus' magnetic field, with the yellow arrow pointing toward the Sun, the light blue arrow indicating the planet’s magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow showing its ...

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the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to ...

Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the menacing asteroid, the odds that our celestial neighbor, the moon, could be impacted have only continued to climb. James Webb Space Telescope ...

The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the ... Jupiter and even on some of Jupiter’s fiery and icy moons. Lights glow in the skies of Uranus, too. But auroras around our sun’s most distant ...

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Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...