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

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

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

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.