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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of a planet located outside of ... said. "At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

it can’t see all the light coming from the exoplanet. Earth’s atmosphere absorbs a lot of the planet’s infrared wavelengths — exactly the wavelengths JWST excels at observing. The space ...

“At first all I could see was light ... remove that light and uncover the planet.” While this is not the first direct image of an exoplanet taken from space, these images of HIP 65426 b ...

“At first all I could see was light ... remove that light and uncover the planet.” While this is not the first direct image of an exoplanet taken from space – the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The sun dwarfs all the planets, though ... In this infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, you can see faint rings circling Jupiter and auroras glowing at its poles.

Although all four of Webb’s instruments look ... Some of the most stunning images of our planet are taken from space, like this image snapped by an astronaut on board the International Space ...

The image captures the planet’s near-infrared glow in unprecedented ... Christopher Crockett, associate news editor, says: My favorite space image of all time isn’t of a colorful nebula ...

While many nights offer the chance to view the Moon in all its majestic ... for the first full disk image taken by a person in space, meaning photography of our humble planet is relatively new.

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of cloud formation in this moon's northern hemisphere. Titan is the second ...