The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

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

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...