Aug 1, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), an area of deep space with nearly 10,000...

Jul 23, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the...

Jul 11, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to image a portion of the Cat’s Paw...

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

Using the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning infrared image of central...

Jun 27, 2025 by News Staff

Present-day disk galaxies often exhibit distinct thin and thick disks. The formation mechanisms of the two disks and the timing of their onset remain open...

Jun 26, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have used the unprecedented sensitivity of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in the thermal...

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected silicate clouds in the atmosphere of the exoplanet YSES-1c and a circumplanetary...

Jun 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Using the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of the Sombrero...

Jun 3, 2025 by News Staff

As part of the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program, astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have performed new measurements of the Hubble...

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide in the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b...

May 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a remarkable new image of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This Webb image shows...

May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Water ice heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by comets to fully formed rocky planets. Using data from the Near-Infrared...

May 13, 2025 by News Staff

The Jovian aurorae are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, says a team of astronomers by University of Leicester’s Dr. Jonathan Nichols. These...

May 6, 2025 by News Staff

Sub-Neptunes are high-occurrence exoplanets that have no solar system analog. Much smaller than gas giants and typically cooler than hot-Jupiter exoplanets,...

Apr 21, 2025 by News Staff

Highly ionized neon gas detected at the center of the spiral galaxy Messier 83 by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb...

Apr 17, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected the chemical fingerprints of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl disulfide...

Apr 16, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just one billion...

Apr 15, 2025 by News Staff

NGC 1514’s two central stars, which appear as one in the image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, formed this scene over thousands of...

Apr 3, 2025 by Natali Anderson

The destructive power of an impacting asteroid is primarily estimated by knowledge of its size. The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 reached a peak 2032 impact...

Apr 2, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Light from an extremely distant spiral galaxy was bent and magnified by the gravity of a member of the galaxy cluster SMACSJ0028.2-7537 into a ring-like...