Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of unknown facts about the device.

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it launched in late 2021. So, after four ...

OK, first, let's get the name out of the way. Scientists have cataloged this exoplanet as PSR J2322-2650b. It's called that because it orbits a pulsar (a rapidly rotating neutron star) designated PSR ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...

Perhaps an odd question, but what exactly is the volume of space that makes up various "L" points? Obviously it isn't a precise place in space where only one orbital object sits as if on a gravity ...

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 ...