Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged an exoplanet. I know what you’re thinking: “JWST ...

The new planet is TWA 7 b, where the “b” means that this is the first exoplanet discovered in this system. (The “a,” if used, ...

RIK 113 is surrounded by rings of dust and gas as they slowly condense to form a new planet. (Image credit: ESO/C. Ginski et al.) Why is it amazing?

The Webb Telescope found two young planets forming sand clouds in the YSES‑1 system, revealing unprecedented details about ...

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

RIK 113 is surrounded by rings of dust and gas as they slowly condense to form a new planet. | Credit: ESO/C. Ginski et al.

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...