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

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon ... valuable insights into how planets form, both within our solar ...

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

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

Direct imaging of distant planets poses a major challenge due to several factors. Fore one, telescopes have difficulty distinguishing the faint light from a planet from the much b ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed ... directly detect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of all four of the system's known planets, according to the study. "Webb's new images ...

Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images The recent and much ... In May 2000, the sun, moon and the five naked-eye planets were contained within a space measuring just 25.9 degrees across.