This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near ... That’s important because Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere comprises many layers, which are hard to tease ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

adapt to the changes in the atmosphere to essentially "undo" the turbulence and create sharp, undistorted images. Professional observatories do this not by vibrating the telescope, but by subtly ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals that the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet HD 189733 b likely has an atmosphere that smells like rotten eggs due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide.

Sulphur dioxide has been detected in the atmosphere of the exoplanet GJ 3470b, a surprising find for a planet of its size. This discovery was made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).