Near the constellation Leo, JWST turned its gaze slightly aside. In the dim stars of Sextans, it spotted something ...

This composite photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn around its 2009 equinox. Erik Johnson Erik Johnson This composite photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn around its 2009 equinox.

Named Eos, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye and could shed light on solar ...

However, some of the latter selections in our list would benefit from being viewed through a pair of binoculars, or a telescope ... he observed it in the early 1600s. A pair of good binoculars ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Given its proximity to its star, the team estimates that the planet is roasting at around 1,600 degrees Celsius ... using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. All three planets were spotted ...

What's even more astonishing: with every blistering 30-hour orbit — which heats the planet to close to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 degrees ... NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, whose ...