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

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

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

When Lior Shamir, a scientist at Kansas State University, examined images from the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

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

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

A recent study using the James Webb Space Telescope has promoted the theory long held by certain astrophysicists that we live ...

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

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...