James Webb Mapped the Chaotic Weather of a Planet Drifting Alone Through Space and It’s Even Wilder Than Jupiter
Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a…
Ingredients for finding the origins of life
Our approach is not simply to look for life or extraterrestrials. It is a more global process with…
NASA confirms over 5,000 exoplanets
NASA announced a scientific high point as more than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond the solar…
3 Earth-sized planets around double star surprise scientists
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the 3 Earth-sized planets in the TOI-2267 binary star system. This is…
Super-Earth 18 light-years away sparks hope for life in space
View larger. | Artist’s concept of GJ 251 c, a potentially habitable world, a super-Earth type exoplanet only…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
We applied two complementary spectroscopic eclipse mapping methods to the data: Eigenspectra7 and ThERESA29. We used two methods…
A Soft Collision in the Early Solar System May Explain Mercury’s Giant Metal Heart
In the crowded early Solar System, young planets frequently collided and reshaped each other. But Mercury stood out.…
Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!Â
WISPIT 2b Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…
6,000 Planets Have Been Found Outside the Solar System
The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said.…