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

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SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful space observatory ever built, designed to peer 13.5 billion years into the past and uncover the secrets of the universe. Launched aboard the ...

On Oct. 1, 1847, at age 29, Maria Mitchell, a studious and sturdy Quaker who, as a child, began sweeping the sky above ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the ...

James Webb found LTT 9779 b, a Neptune-like exoplanet with 2,000°C heat, extreme winds, and evaporating clouds—challenging ...