Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

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

Moulded by the planet's fast swirling winds the ice caps form wonderful patterns that seem too beautiful to be real. Yet captured by NASA, the images provide a way to dive into the history of the ...

This video animation shows an artist's view of the PDS 70 system transition to real images of the two planets and theircircumplanetary "dust donuts." The movie ends with the planets changing in ...

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.

A new set of images taken by ... It's also the public's first real look from Kepler at the exciting star system, which could be orbited by at least one habitable planet. SEE ALSO: NASA gives ...

36—and processed by Kevin M. Gill. NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has sent back another batch of stunning photos of the giant planet. The $1.1 billion spacecraft, which recently ...

The planet and star were based on a real star of the same name. In 2018, to much acclaim, astronomers discovered an exoplanet orbiting the star, giving rise to the existence of what many called a ...

Developing sharper images of protoplanets and the dust around them is key to understanding how planets and their moons form, according to the research team. Although the planets in PSD 70 already ...