For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—humanity’s most powerful eye in space—has captured auroras on ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Auroras are natural light displays that occur when energetic particles from the Sun are trapped by a planet’s magnetic field.
Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them known to be habitable. The "huge leap ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...
Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.