"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
"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 ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
The Sun, the main source of light and energy, is the brightest object in our solar system, shining on and lighting up all other celestial bodies. Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, ...
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...