Earth.com5h
First direct image of CO2 outside our solar system captured by Webb
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
Astronomers discover exotic atmosphere on scorching hot exoplanet Cuancoá. 'Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire'
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...
Smithsonian Magazine8h
Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Rochester Institute of Technology11h
Celebrating Women’s History Month through interdisciplinary research
The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals ...
ExtremeTech on MSN14h
Webb Telescope Captures 4 Distant Worlds in a Single Direct Image
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant ...
Space.com17h
Dark skies above world's best astronomy sites could be ruined by new energy project
"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...
This Newly Found Exoplanet Is So Light, Scientists Don’t Know What It’s Made Of
Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...
Space.com1d
Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN1d
Webb Telescope’s First-Ever Exoplanet CO2 Discovery Stuns Scientists, NASA Says
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...
Good News Network1d
After 50 Years of Searching for Exoplanets, We Found Our Smallest Cosmic Neighbors Orbiting Local Star
These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...
4 miniature, Earth-like planets discovered extremely close to our sun
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...