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

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 one ...

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

Scientists at Northumbria University have successfully captured images of auroras on Neptune using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Even at Neptune's incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Our planet is just the right distance from the ... The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The eight planets travel around ...

“And by golly, it was.” Astronomers have been searching for auroral activity on Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by it in 1989 and picked up ...