For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—humanity’s most powerful eye in space—has captured auroras on Neptune in dazzling detail. Auroras are an atmospheric phenomenon ...

The striking image from the International Space Station captures the rain shadow effect, where a part of a mountain range is ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the ...

NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list ...

SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

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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 ...

They look like a dish of lentils, or a mass of spider eggs on a leaf. But whatever they are, these tiny little brown blobs, ...

Neptune's auroras have been seen in full view for the first time. They were captured on camera by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. While there was no hard evidence, astronomers had long ...

A 2022 satellite image shows smoke billowing from the caldera of Tofua, indicating an “imminent threat” from the volcanic island. A 2019 satellite photo shows the vanishing of Iceland’s ...

Additionally, with the predictions of a devil's horns eclipse, fans of astronomy were up for waiting for hours to see the stunning sight. As predicted by NASA, the eclipse was visible in Europe ...