For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...
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.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. This discovery, within the HR 8799 ...
"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 ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant spiral galaxy that shouldn't exist. If it finds more, scientists may ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...