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

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ... It’s the same effect that is seen on Earth (and often called the Northern Lights), and it has also been seen ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

The auroral activity seen on Neptune is also noticeably different from what we are accustomed to seeing here on Earth, or even Jupiter or Saturn. Instead of being confined to the planet's northern ...

Even more significant is the unique nature of Neptune's aurora, which scientists say differs from those seen on Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, where auroras are typically confined to the poles.

"Based on our predictions, up to about 1% of super-Earth and mini-Neptune systems could host Earth-like planets within the habitable zone of their stars. While this fraction is relatively low ...

Get the facts on this planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at a distance of 4.5 billion kilometres - more than 30 times further out than the Earth - Neptune is a dark, icy world. Receiving just ...

But the Voyager 2 mission did discover the strange nature of Neptune's magnetic field, tilted at a steep angle. Unlike Earth’s steady magnetic field, Neptune’s shifts and twists. Because ...