Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

ranging from irregular town-size space rocks to massive rounded bodies that are potentially big enough to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we ...