"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...
Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
"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 ...