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

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the ... hunt its lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs. The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass ...

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

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three ... pressure from gravity they heat up, and if there is enough material then ...

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After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Sending both SPHEREx and PUNCH up on a ... Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, which have for years already been studying the far corners of the known universe. The new telescope could ...

Then, in 2023, even sharper measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sealed the deal, making it clear that something about our understanding of the cosmos isn’t quite adding up. Now, ...

Next up is planet b: the planet first identified ... their thermal emission can be studied with [the James Webb Space Telescope], though this remains challenging," says Basant.