A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

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

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when energetic particles from the Sun are trapped by a planet’s magnetic field.

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...