"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

"The level of detail and clarity of the images was surprising." Neptune's magnetic field is tilted about 47 degrees relative to the planet's rotation axis, which explains why the auroras are ...

Researchers believe Neptune’s unusual auroras are caused by the planet’s oddly tilted magnetic field, first discovered by NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989. Unlike Earth’s, Neptune’s magnetic ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming, even ...