For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

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 ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant galaxy that shouldn't exist. Using this exceptionally powerful telescope, a team of researchers were able to peer back in time and observe this ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

This issue, called the Hubble Tension, could shake the very foundations of cosmology. In 2019, data from the Hubble Space Telescope proved this wasn’t just a fluke. Then, in 2023, even sharper ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope uncovers a 'planet factory' in Orion, revealing young stars and dusty disks rapidly forming ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system.