The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope.

For the first time, the powerful telescope has discovered an exoplanet not previously known to scientists. Find out more here.

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

These two gas giant planets weigh five to 15 times the mass of Jupiter and orbit far from their host, a star similar to the sun. What's different is that it's only about 16.7 million years old, a ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Kepler-725c's mass is quite significant — 10 times greater than the mass of Earth. This places it in the upper echelons of a type of planet called super-Earths — giant, probably rocky worlds.

WASHINGTON: The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy — one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of ...

Astronomers face a data deluge from observatories like Vera Rubin — simulated skies may be key to training algorithms to keep ...

Webb has become famous for snapping gorgeous images of the cosmos, but the photo the telescope captured of 14 Herculis c is far from as eye-catching. That's because astronomers struggle to image ...

Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that quickly devour what remains of the star-circling gas and dust clouds in which they form. The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly ...