Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers ... having short orbital periods of between two and seven Earth days (for comparison, our sun's closest planet, Mercury, orbits in 88 ...

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their stellar host in a ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

A small, cool star in distant space plays host to something amazing. Scientists have discovered that at least seven Earth-sized worlds circle the star TRAPPIST-1, a ultracool dwarf star only about ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary system HR 8799. Located 130 light-years away, this system is young—about 30 ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...