The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

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

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...

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

Before Webb, other telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope and computer simulations suggested oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen didn't come about for perhaps another 200 to 400 million years.

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez You don't see this every day. "Our hope with this kind of ...

The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints" of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the planet HR 8799 e's atmosphere. The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints" of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmospheres of exoplanets for the very first time. Announced by NASA on March ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. This discovery, within the HR ...