The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...
Saturn’s iconic rings will briefly vanish from view, a rare astronomical event caused by a quirk of planetary alignment. As ...
In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This ...
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...
This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...