Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

Sub-Neptune planets are often covered in thick haze, making studying hard. However, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals a new view of planetary death as a planet spirals into its star. The post ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

Mary Gilmore, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Apr. 16, a team of astronomers found evidence of an unexpected atmospheric gas while ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six times the mass of Jupiter, is the coldest exoplanet ever detected, with an ...

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have dramatically reshaped our understanding of a planet’s ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...