It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
Two teams have separately concluded that Uranus is releasing more internal heat than was indicated in observations by Voyager ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...
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 ...
Spring arrives on Thursday March 20 at 5:01 p.m. EDT with much in the way of astronomical change in perspective in tow.March’s equinox marks ...