The James Webb Space Telescope achieved a rarity — snapping an image of a planet beyond our solar system. The exoplanet, ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century ...

First discovered in 1997, Chariklo is an icy asteroid, one of the building blocks of the solar system, but it’s also ... but from a telescope’s point of view, it’s tiny, it’s distant ...

Our solar system resides within a bubble of superheated ... Astronomers have analyzed data from the eROSITA X-ray telescope ...

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

Well, the answer to that is simply because his telescope wasn't good enough. While the first five planets in the Solar System had been viewed by civilisations for millennia, the last three are ...

Astronomers from India have made an intriguing discovery in a unique tri-star solar system located 489 light ... the discovery using the advanced radio telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water ... planetary formation and the potential for life beyond our solar system. JWST's NIRCam instrument observed these compounds ...

Planet Nine, a massive icy world, may be lurking at the outer edge of our solar system, awaiting discovery by advanced telescopes. "It's really difficult to explain the solar system without Planet ...

Previous observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Despite the system being the best-studied planetary system outside of our own solar system, detecting atmospheres on its ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...

A raging dust storm has been observed on a planet outside our Solar ... telescope in Chile in 2015. It's what's termed a "super Jupiter" - a planet similar to the gas giant in our own Solar System ...