Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the atmosphere of a cosmic body that is either a "failed star" brown dwarf or a rogue planet.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture four of them in a ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science. The scientists behind NASA's largest and most powerful ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered in clouds of iron and magnesium minerals.

While it doesn't observe as much of the infrared as the Webb telescope, SPHEREx can detect 102 distinct wavelengths across the entire sky, which allows it to measure the composition and distance ...