SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

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

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture four of them in a ...

Although starshades – a technology first proposed in the 1960s, four decades before the first exoplanet was discovered – have never flown in space and have not been approved for flight, they could ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have found ... Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered ...

such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could there be life on planets outside our solar system? For astrophysicists, it’s a big ...

Young Gas Giant HR 8799 e (NIRCam Spectrum) / Credit: NASA Astronomers have now discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, many of them massive — and none of them known to be habitable. The "huge leap ...

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called WASP-39b. But that detection was made indirectly, so the latest ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...