Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic photography ...

"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 ...

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

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

The planets themselves (not to scale ... With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Clear skies will also be necessary to see all the planets. The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance. During these ...

All seven planets are going to line up in the night sky on Friday in a rare planetary parade that will not be repeated for another 15 years. The celestial display will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it ... reveal unprecedented details of planets when they are very young.