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

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M. Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

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

Titan is the only moon known to have a ... pillars that can withstand the force from the star cluster. The James Webb Space Telescope can see all over the universe with its enormous mirror ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope , researchers have generated the first-ever weather report of a rogue exoplanet-like object — and it shows patches of clouds and carbon chemicals, along with ...

Less than four years after its showstopping launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is facing massive budget slashes that will, experts worry, harm scientific progress and stymie the beloved ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three years ago, gives us the ability to take photographs of deep space with ...

"One of the great benefits of looking for methyl halides is you could potentially find them in as few as 13 hours with James Webb. That is similar or lower, by a lot, to how much telescope time ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...