Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...
For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.
What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a ...
Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...
Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...
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.
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...
NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...