Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

NASA, Johns Hopkins University Although intense light emitting from distant stars ... utilize these insights to “understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other ...

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.

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

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 ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

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 ...

A deep learning framework transforms decades of solar data into a unified, high-resolution view—adjusting instruments, overcoming limitations, and helping us better understand our star.

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 ...

and so is young compared to our solar system, which has existed for 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, the planets of HR 8799 emit large amounts of infrared light.

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 ...