"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

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

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

With the promise of revolutionizing our view of nearby star systems, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is poised to do ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured detailed images of HR 8799’s exoplanets, revealing new insights into their formation, ...

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

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