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.
This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...
In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...
"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 HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
"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 ...