Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...
"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...
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 gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...