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…
Enceladus Plays Bigger Role in Shaping Saturn’s Space Environment than Previously Thought
A new analysis of data from four instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated the crucial role that…
Jupiter is Smaller and More ‘Squashed’ than Previously Believed, New Juno Data Reveal
Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, planetary scientists derived…
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…
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
Astronomers Create 3D Temperature Map of Hot-Jupiter WASP-18b
The new map of WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, reveals an atmosphere with…
3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars
The discovery of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that significant numbers of interstellar objects populate interstellar space. Their…
Webb Discovers Exomoon-Forming Circumplanetary Disk around Gas-Giant Exoplanet
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found the carbon-rich disk surrounding CT Cha b, a…
Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped…