The scientific instruments on board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are so sensitive that they can tell the weather on an exoplanet a whopping 280 light years away. Using the telescope's ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around ...
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 Telescope, combined with prior ...
Exoplanets are common in our galaxy, and some even orbit in the so-called habitable zone of their star. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been busy observing a few of these small, potentially ...
A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy -- like planet WASP-107 b. A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the ...
Astronomers have detected a thick atmosphere around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, according to new research published on Wednesday. The so-called "super Earth ...
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.
This artist’s concept shows what the warm Neptune exoplanet WASP-107 b could look like based on recent data gathered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope along with previous observations from ...
Can a "Hell Planet" have an atmosphere? In a new paper published May 8 in the journal Nature, researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have finally cracked this decades-old ...