The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captures the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a distant planetary system, HR 8799, ...

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 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 ...

Researchers have discovered four Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star using advanced telescopes. These planets ...

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A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

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This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...