Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

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Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

In the vast theater of space, astronomers have uncovered a tale of cosmic destruction unlike any other. The James Webb Space ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know.

Rather than this star expanding, it drew the planet closer and closer until it was consumed, new evidence from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... a star and its Jupiter-size planet, located ...