Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

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

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

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

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

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 ...