The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

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 ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

William Balmer, an astronomy Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and one of the lead authors of Monday’s study, said in a prepared statement to NASA that studying gas giants like those found ...

and provided additional information into the chemical make-up of the young gas giants," NASA said in a statement. They used Webb's coronagraph instruments, which block the light from bright stars ...