The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...
Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system ... only 6,000 worlds outside our solar system have been discovered, and ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...