The James Webb Space Telescope has taken the deepest look yet at Kepler-51d, an ultra-low-density exoplanet sometimes compared to cotton candy, and found that a thick atmospheric haze blocks nearly ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

Europa is not supposed to look the way it does. Jupiter's icy moon is scarred by a chaotic patchwork of fractured terrain, crisscrossed ridges, and disrupted surface regions that suggest something ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale) JWST has captured one of its most eerily beautiful images yet: A glowing cloud of gas and dust that resembles a giant brain in a ...

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