Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide Gas on Three Super-Jupiters
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in…
Study Reveals A Planetary System With An Unexpected Rocky Planet In Its Outer Region
Artist’s impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903. Credit: ESA An international scientific team, led…
Cool, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow…
NASA SVS | NASA’s Pandora Satellite to Explore Exoplanets and Stars
The NASA Pandora spacecraft will observe planets as they pass in front of their stars as seen from…
Astronomers Measure Mass of Free-Floating Exoplanet for First Time
A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing…
A new rogue planet the size of Saturn has been detected about 10,000 light-years away
An artist’s illustration showing a planet in space. (Image source: TheDigitalArtist – Pixabay) Astronomers have detected a new…
Hubble captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks in a nearby planetary system
Far away in the universe, something surprising happened that no astronomer saw coming. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted…
Astronomers find mysterious lemon-shaped exoplanet with NASA’s Webb telescope
Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned…
A Planet 900 Light-Years Away Has Weather So Extreme “It Feels Like Science Fiction”. It’s 70,000 km/h Winds Carry Vaporized Iron and Even Titanium
Illustration of Tylos’ extreme atmosphere. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney AI. Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through…
Astronomers unveil images of a rare exoplanet, similar to Tatooine, orbiting two stars
An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet with two stars. (Image source: Terranaut – Pixabay) Astronomers have just unveiled…
Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere on Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561b
The new observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope suggest that TOI-561b is surrounded by a thick…
Webb Detects Giant Clouds of Helium Leaking from WASP-107b
Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…