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

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

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

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.