The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...

T he James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system ...

The observatory seized images of four “giant” planets in the solar system of a ... varying wavelengths of the light from each planet. Besides the planetary system of HR 8799, the team also ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune ...

For the first time, Webb has captured “direct images ... year-old solar system. Its young planets, still radiating heat from ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

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 that has long been a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in exoplanets within the HR 8799 system, 130 light-years away. This ...

Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation, emit substantial infrared light ... We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different ...

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 that has long been ...