A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

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

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

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 ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

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

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