The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our ... then gathered data using the telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

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

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically ... But during the latest flyby, on December 27, 2024, Juno's infrared camera JIRAM saw an event so intense that it saturated its detector.

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

That treat, a photo of the Jupiter moon Ganymede snapped on July 20, comes compliments of Juno's JIRAM, or Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper. Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, captured by the Juno probe just ...