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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...

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

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

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...