NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations in July of 2022. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest moon—including the presence of previously undetected surface chemicals.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists conducted lab experiments to address a mystery about the origins of frozen ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists conducted lab experiments to address a mystery about the origins of ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in exoplanet parlance, it’s all but a cosmic featherweight. TWA 7b, which ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

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Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the telescope's first exoplanet discovery.