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 ...

“And by golly, it was.” Astronomers have been searching for auroral activity on Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by it in 1989 and picked ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune's shimmering lights in infrared light, providing direct ...

Both spacecraft left our solar system, with Voyager 1 crossing the heliosphere boundary in 2012 and Voyager 2 in 2018 after its flyby of Neptune. The Voyager spacecraft are powered by Radioisotope ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune’s shimmering lights in infrared light, providing ...

WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras have been captured in the minutest detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.