The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.
When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...
A rare celestial spectacle is gracing the night sky this February, as seven planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are in the post-sunset sky in a phenomenon ...
"These electrons gain energy from the interaction between Io and Jupiter's magnetic field," said ... atoms and molecules and even creating aurora." In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission discovered ...
"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...