The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.
Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...
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 ...