Auroras occur when energetic particles, often from the sun, are caught in a planet's magnetic field and collide with the ...

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

falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in the atmosphere. Now, we’ve known about ring rain since the 1980s when NASA’s Voyager mission first noticed mysterious, dark bands that turned out ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

This is due to a process known as ring rain, in which gravity slowly pulls the rings apart and vaporizes their icy chunks in Saturn's upper atmosphere. Find the best places to eat, play ...

The size and quality of the telescope you use and “the calmness of Earth’s atmosphere,” can also impact our ability to see Saturn’s rings. Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to ...

Chesley Bonestell’s “Saturn ... images would show clear evidence of surface water. The sci-fi jungles of Venus pictured in pulp magazines? Probes showed instead a dense atmosphere and hellish ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like Jupiter and Saturn—that has a substantial atmosphere. The other ...