Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling…
James Webb Space Telescope Finds a Hot Jupiter Roasting on a 111-Day Skewer
Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet HD 80606 b with Jupiter. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Jupiter’s cloud tops hover around –145°C.…
James Webb reveals a hellish exoplanet where dawn and dusk have wildly different chemistry
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121…
JWST finds rare planet with different atmospheric conditions at dawn and dusk
WASP-121 b is split between extremes. One side faces its star nonstop and burns at about 2,770 Kelvin.…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope found a Saturn-sized planet with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere |
Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies…
NASA Finds a “Goldilocks” Giant Planet Wrapped in Methane
Artist’s impression of a gas giant planet orbiting its distant host star. New research, led by astronomers at…
Astronomers uncover daily cloud cycles on WASP-94A b exoplanet
image: ©gremlin | iStock Scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover daily cloud cycles on…