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

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

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

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

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

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

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

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 ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see ... than Neptune — but there's no such world in our system. The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints" of carbon dioxide ...