Through a small telescope, greenish Uranus appears as a slightly elliptical disk because of its rapid rotation. The planet moves slowly. It takes Uranus about 44 days to move the width of the Full ...

Scientists have been anticipating the James Webb Space Telescope for years, and it’s set to launch in 2021. This large infrared telescope will be the premier observatory of the next decade ...

Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a common kind of planet that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. What they saw wasn't what they expected.

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the unexpected, said Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb ...

The planets, on the other hand, provide alien landscapes to explore, and, for many, these become the prime focus. Planetary telescopes have been developed specifically to fulfill that need.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST was used to study PDS 70, a young star with two ...

5 planets are now lined up in the sky 00:49. By Terry Eliasen, Meteorologist, WBZ-TV Executive Weather Producer . BOSTON -- We are in for quite a treat in the nighttime sky over the next few weeks!