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

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

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

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

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

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