Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...