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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in their ...

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 ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and ...

The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old -- just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 billion years.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

A disk galaxy, like our Milky Way, is a flat, rotating system with spiral arms spreading out from a central core. These ...

Puzzling observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest the entire universe exists inside a black hole ...