Even at the present time, when humanity possesses extremely modern giant ground observatories, as well as advanced space ...

What a Christmas present it was – it just blew me away!” Jonathan Nichols of Leicester University summed up the thrill of ...

We’ve long known that Jupiter is a planet of storms, with its most iconic one having lasted for at least 350 years. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has deciphered exactly how fast one of Jupiter’s ...

Jupiter’s auroras sparkle with mystery — and Webb just uncovered a cosmic riddle scientists didn’t see coming.

The lights are similar to the auroras seen on Earth but are “hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth." ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

Scientists looked at Jupiter's massive auroras using the James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — and found a mystery they ...

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of water ice in a planetary system beyond our own for the first ...

Stunning auroral activity has been observed on Jupiter, in an unexpected new discovery that has perplexed astronomers as to ...