Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter show off their rings for various NASA spacecraft ...

F rom the very beginning, JWST was shown to be a revolutionary instrument for the study of exoplanets, detecting intriguing ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged an exoplanet. I know what you’re thinking: “JWST ...

The Webb Telescope found two young planets forming sand clouds in the YSES‑1 system, revealing unprecedented details about ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

The findings underscore Webb's capability to explore low-mass planets around nearby stars, offering new insights into planet ...

Astronomers say this small gas giant fits perfectly in a gap in its star’s disk, confirming how young planets shape their ...

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.