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 ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

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

Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just completed the first of two planned observations of the infamous "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4, which will make a perilously close approach ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...