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

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

"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 detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of oxygen.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the developing star system Lynds 483, revealing intricate gas ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...