Solar System

James Webb Telescope makes its first exoplanet discovery

Earth-sized planet or LHS 475 b is relatively close, at only 41 light-years away, in the constellation Octans, NASA researchers say, but couldn't confirm if it has an atmosphere.

James Webb telescope detects CO2 in exoplanet atmosphere

Webb captures first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39 B, a gas giant closely orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light years away, NASA says.

Jupiter and Saturn cheek-to-cheek in rare 'great conjunction'

In a celestial phenomenon not seen in 397 years, Jupiter and Saturn, from the perspective of observers on Earth, align closely in an intimacy that will not occur again until 2080.

Japan's capsule returns to Earth with asteroid samples

Hayabusa2 spacecraft released a small capsule that has landed in a remote, sparsely populated area of Woomera, Australia, Japan's space agency says.

Perseid meteor shower lights up sky in Turkey's Kutahya

Sky watchers in Turkey's Kutahya province have observed the Perseid meteor shower which occurs every year in August.

NASA succeeds in historic flyby of faraway world

The scientists received a series of anxiously awaited signals from the New Horizons, indicating that the aircraft made a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind.

Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars

Researchers believe the ice formed relatively recently because the sites appear smooth on the surface and there are no signs of craters that would be formed by celestial debris smashing into the planet over time.