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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in Earth's galactic backyard.

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 ...

The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

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The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...