"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Saturn and Jupiter, the two gas giants, have long vied for the title of “moon king.” Over the years, astronomers have been ...

Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Because it's traveling without an interfering star, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study a solitary, planet-like ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.