Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting ... decrease of their dead parent star makes their atmospheres too unstable. As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

This allows for efficient global observation of the planet. The James Webb Space Telescope was selected for this work because of its excellent infrared observation capabilities. The team used two ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

The conditions in space are hostile to life and travelling in spacecraft is difficult and expensive. So scientists are using different methods to see if there is life on planets other than the Earth.

Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting white dwarfs would be unsuitable for life because the dynamic temperature decrease of their dead parent star makes their ...