NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling…
JWST finds rare planet with different atmospheric conditions at dawn and dusk
WASP-121 b is split between extremes. One side faces its star nonstop and burns at about 2,770 Kelvin.…
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds…
Helio and You: Seasons on Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Earth has four seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter. Other planets (including Jupiter and the other giant…
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn,…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Discovered an ‘Impossible’ Atmosphere Around a Magma-Covered World
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected the best evidence ever recorded for an atmosphere on a rocky…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…