Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. 55 Cancri e is a fiery world. Classified as a rocky "super-Earth", this ...
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... “Methane is unstable at high ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the strongest evidence to date for the existence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, 55 Cancri e. This ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
Observations made in November 2023 with the coronagraph on the JWST MIRI instrument have not only detected and measured the mid-infrared intensity of the four young giant planets orbiting the star ...
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA's James Webb Space ... be able to detect methane and other ...
This artist's concept shows what the exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like. Credit: University of Bern/Switzerland. Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a significant ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the richest "menu" of hydrocarbons ever seen in a planet-forming disk. This observation, which involved the protoplanetary disk ...
Image: ROBERTO MOLAR CANDANOSA/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Using James Webb Space Telescope data, scientists have made the first measurements of an exoplanet’s core mass. Scientists detected a ...