The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...