Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

NOAA is forecasting elevated solar wind conditions on Tuesday, Feb. 24, through Wednesday, Feb 25, with the aurora borealis possible in northern U.S. states and Canada.

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

Geomagnetic storm conditions linked to fast solar wind streams may increase aurora visibility tonight across Canada, Scandinavia, and Alaska, according to NOAA and the U.K. Met Office.

A sediment core from the North Atlantic has revealed that one ofEarth’s magnetic field reversals during the Eocene lasted far ...

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Monday, Feb. 23, through Tuesday, Feb. 24, with the aurora borealis possible from northern U.S. states and Canada.

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.