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

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

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

New research from a professor at the Kansas State University that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a black ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of oxygen.

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...