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Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

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Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

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The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

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. The previously unknown celestial body has been named “TWA ...