Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have observed a ...

Did 29 Cygni b form like a planet, or like a star? Or are the two not quite as distinct as previously believed?

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

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NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

Chris Stockdale first became interested in outer space during the 1960s and built his own observatory ...

Astronomers noted that HATS-75 b thus joins the rare population of giant planets around M-dwarfs observed with JWST.

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

For some time, astronomers have theorized that there is a connection between planetary mass and rotation. In the solar system ...

On Monday afternoon, Ricker and his colleagues issued a progress report on humankind’s latest search for friends or at least neighbors. Less than a quarter of the way through a two-year search for ...

New exoplanet database visualizes planets in 3D star maps, simulates surface views, and estimates environments, with a ...