Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO2 in the atmosphere ...

The James Webb Space telescope captures a direct image of exoplanets YSES-1b and YSES-1c with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. Credit: NASA/ ESA / CSA / Hoch et al. / Nature ...

This is a gallery of exoplanets with retrograde orbits. Exoplanets, discovered by WASP together with ESO telescopes, that unexpectedly have been found to have retrograde orbits, are shown in this ...

As of now, the team isn't sure what changed the dietary habits of these infant exoplanets. The protoplanetary disk around the infant star PDS 70 as seen by ALMA. (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO ...

On the JWST, they enable high-contrast imaging of exoplanets in the near- to mid-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, if the coronagraph blocks too much light, it can obscure ...

"How did we [take] those fancy pictures of our own galaxy, Milky Way?" Redditor fourps asked on Friday, adding, "We cannot fly out of it to take a picture".. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy ...