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

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star ...

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

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

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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope could potentially detect signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds, possibly the most ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

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

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

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, challenging current understanding of ...