The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...
The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...
In order for NASA to study the mysteries of the universe, the scientists there need to be able to look out into the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope did this for a time, giving humanity some ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...
Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...
A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet ...
Exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a pulsar, possesses an unprecedented helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere, characterized by molecular carbon (C3 and C2) and soot clouds, a composition unlike any ...
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...