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 mid ...
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 ...
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 observations ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy–like planet. Artist’s concept of WASP-107 b, a warm Neptune exoplanet about 200 light-years away. Image: ...
An artist’s conception of a violent flare erupting from the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Such flares can obliterate atmospheres of nearby planets. Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello. As we discover ...