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

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...

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

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

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