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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

James Webb and future infrared telescopes could soon be finding these signatures regularly. “If we start finding methyl halides on multiple planets, it would suggest that microbial life is commo ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.

A conception of the James Webb Space ... world in our system. The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints" of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the planet HR 8799 e's atmosphere.

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

This property makes them planets comparable to Saturn and Jupiter. HR 8799 exoplanets captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, Johns Hopkins University Although intense light ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...