The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

which is just a fraction of our own solar system's 4.6 billion years old. Webb's results have been published in The Astrophysical Journal. NASA explains in its blog post that gas giants can form ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...