Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

As scientists delve deeper into a star system with seven rocky worlds, the prospect of one being a habitable planet seems to be quickly fading. Researchers who used the James Webb Space Telescope, a ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — If you're trying to get a beautiful look at the planets in our solar system, you're in luck. Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be ...

WASHINGTON >> Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors — though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor ...

Sky gazers across the U.S. will have a chance to see an extraordinary celestial event on Friday as all of the planets in our solar system will appear in the evening sky. This phenomenon known as a ...