Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

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

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 ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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

Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team’s peas-in-a-pod category. Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system. Deciding on ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI ... meaning that for every three orbits of the inner planet, the outer planet completes almost exactly two.