The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
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 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...
Scientists found a bizarre new planet named Enaiposha, unlike any in our solar system. Learn why it's a mystery and how it’s ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.