St. Andrews University physicists who looked at the planet said that the research conjures "two possible explanations." ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a planetary system that could ...

The new planet TWA 7b is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged. After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured evidence of a planet beyond the solar system for the first time since its launch in 2021. The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring ...

A young star 1,300 light-years away has given astronomers something they have dreamed about for decades: a freeze-frame of the very first step in turning space dust into rocky worlds. Using the James ...

A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

Oumuamua is in a different category of object," Desch told Space.com by email. "It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." Planets arise from the cloud of gas and dust left over ...