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Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that Pluto’s weather is run by a high-altitude haze, not by its thin mix of nitrogen and methane. “This is unique in the solar system,” said Tanguy Bertrand, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory who led the analysis. His team’s Webb observations show Pluto running a climate …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist”s conception of a suspected Saturn-size planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star roughly four light-years from Earth. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Robert L. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to …

There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth. NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged a possible planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star that forms part of the triplet Alpha Centauri star group. The mini-cluster is just four light-years from Earth and is a rich ground for astronomers to learn …

Possible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope  The New York Times New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’  BBC A planet from the Avatar movies may exist in real life  NPR James Webb Space Telescope spots a potential new exoplanet just 4 light-years away from Earth  Space Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in …

Jellyfish galaxies are rare cosmic sights where a spiral or disk galaxy trails a luminous tail of gas and new stars across space. That tail forms when the galaxy rams through hot cluster gas and loses its own fuel in a shimmering wake. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spotted one such creature on June 23, 2025, naming …

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple star system has long been a compelling target in the search for worlds beyond our solar system. Alpha Centauri, located in the …

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth. It’s located just four light-years away from us, in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system. Using JWST‘s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), the team imaged Alpha Centauri with a coronagraphic mask to remove the glare …

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly 10,000 galaxies of diverse ages, sizes, shapes, and colors in a single frame. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revisited the same region of the sky, capturing its longest exposure of an extragalactic field with a single filter yet and revealing one …

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been glimpsing some of the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Its observations have stretched cosmologists’ timelines of when galaxies may have first started to form. And now some of the telescope’s farthest observations yet have revealed sources of blue ultraviolet light from an epoch when stars shouldn’t …

The James Webb Space Telescope has returned to the scene of one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images, the Ultra Deep Field, to capture galaxies throughout cosmic history. This new image was taken as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which is intent on further probing in infrared light two patches of sky that were …