A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system.

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A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

So, while Uranus was the first planet to be "discovered" via telescope in the sense that ... to try and spot Uranus is ...

Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors, from Mars through to distant Neptune ... covered with our guide to the best telescopes for seeing planets. There are several planetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images ... "If you have these huge planets acting like bowling balls running through your solar system, they can either really disrupt, ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Perrin (STScI) NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has ... astrophysicists to sift through, revealing the sources of the oldest light we can see and teasing out details of planets previously too faint ...

Rémi Soummer, who directs the Optics Laboratory at the Space Telescope Science ... “If you have these huge planets acting like bowling balls running through your solar system, they can either ...