NASA would have to close the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and cancel the mission that will bring back samples of ...

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

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 ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope – sort of a postmortem examination ... its red giant phase and could well engulf the innermost planets Mercury and Venus, and maybe even Earth.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew ...

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

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

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

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

One of the most famous and beautiful cosmic sights shows its colors in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Veil Nebula is the remnant of a massive star which exploded in a supernova 10 ...