These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

James Webb found LTT 9779 b, a Neptune-like exoplanet with 2,000°C heat, extreme winds, and evaporating clouds—challenging ...

LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune, is defying expectations. With temperatures soaring to nearly 2,000°C and a tidally locked ...

But only once have they found an "ultra-hot Neptune" — a Neptune-size world ... scientists have now used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the exoplanet's atmosphere and ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

The exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare “ultra-hot Neptune," is coming to light thanks to observations via the James Webb Space Telescope led by Louis-Philippe Coulombe, a graduate student at ...

There is a brutal curiosity on the part of human beings to know everything that happens beyond our planetary border, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... and its orbit takes it three times as far from its star as Neptune is from the sun. That helped scientists pick out the planet in the star's ...