The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful ...
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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 study.
Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of multiple gas giant planets within an iconic planetary system.
The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...