For the first time, the powerful telescope has discovered an exoplanet not previously known to scientists. Find out more here.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a faint source of infrared light in a disk of debris surrounding a young star called TWA 7, approximately 111 light-years away from Earth.

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not previously known to astronomers. Known as TWA 7b, the gas giant belongs to a star just 6.