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In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

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Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

Imaging exoplanets is incredibly challenging because their host stars are often thousands of times brighter and much larger than the planets themselves. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope overcomes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

This graph shows a spectrum of one of the planets in the HR 8799 system, HR 8799 e, which displays the amounts of near-infrared light detected from the planet by Webb at different wavelengths ...

For the first time, Webb has directly detected carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere, proving its ability to analyze alien worlds like never before. The discovery offers new clues about how ...