The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...
Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...