The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

the wonder shared by space enthusiasts was unparalleled. And it makes sense after all, another all-seven-planet lineup isn’t expected until 2040. “Been awake since 3am and drove for 8 hours to ...

Clear skies will also be necessary to see all the planets. The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed and distance. During these ...

Most planets outside our solar system are far too dim to see using visible light. But Zapatero-Osorios' team actually saw the objects they describe. They used spectrometers, which measure both ...

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 ...

without signs of a surrounding solar system. These new observations, and those forthcoming, will help researchers understand objects in the cosmos that could be rogue planets or small brown dwarfs.

Reassuring. Rogue planets float freely through space and if one bumps into us, it would be very bad – like, apocalypse badCredit: Getty There are a couple of ways that this could happen.