Just like Earth, our cosmic neighbor Mars sometimes has auroras dance across its night sky. In March 2024, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover imaged visible-light auroras for the first time during a major ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering ...

Using JWST, astronomers uncovered auroras, exotic clouds, and storms on a blazing rogue planet. Brilliant aurora-like ...

A composite of two observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show Jupiter's aurora.NASA/ESA/J. Nichols (University of Leicester) An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Northern Lights in an arc across the northern sky over ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time, astronomers using data from the Keck II ...

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...