What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its attention. Scientists compete for observing time by submitting proposals, ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed auroras warming the rogue planet’s upper atmosphere.

The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

Currently, however, there is no planned launch date. With JWST expected to remain operational at least into the 2030s, its era of discovery is just beginning. Will it find alien life? Maybe, maybe not ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming complex. The discovery of the new complex, which received the designation LAP2, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse at how moons might form around distant exoplanets.

Astronomers might have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, nearly 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they caution there could be other explanations too.

"TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone planets to search for an atmosphere." Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous ...