For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars. Unlike indirect detection methods, such as transit observations or radial ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct ... only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and they're usually spotted by searching for ...

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb ... of our solar system's strangest ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA’s most precise and ... The observatory seized images of four “giant” planets in the solar system of a distant star called HR 8799.

Article continues below Due to a peak of activity from the Sun during its 11-year solar cycle ... such as the UK. The James Webb Space Telescope captured the shimmering lights on Neptune, the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and ... As the most distant planet in the solar system, it only receives a dim twilight's worth of sunshine at its high noon.