When the search for habitable exoplanets requires a 1,000 times more stable telescope than James Webb Space Telescope, even ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...

TOI-4465 b is a gas giant exoplanet about 25 per cent larger than Jupiter – the largest planet in our Solar System – and nearly six times its mass. The new planet has a temperature range of 375 to 478 ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...