The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged young, giant exoplanets and detected carbon dioxide! The findings suggest that the giant exoplanets in the HR 8799 system likely formed like Jupiter and Saturn.

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI instrument has captured the final moments of a planet's existence, unexpectedly ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed ... Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the ...