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

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very ...

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

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This gorgeous new ... they have learned about dust’s importance in forming stars and planets, and even making new molecules in space. The image shows clouds of ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...