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 Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
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.
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a cautionary tale from planet hunting’s prehistory ...
NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...