Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
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We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.
GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...
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 ...
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...