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

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft . They told Gaia to shut ...

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...