The scientific instruments on board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are so sensitive that they can tell the weather on an exoplanet a whopping 280 light years away. Using the telescope's mid ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. 55 Cancri e is a fiery world. Classified as a rocky "super-Earth", this ...
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... “Methane is unstable at high ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the strongest evidence to date for the existence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, 55 Cancri e. This ...
Observations made in November 2023 with the coronagraph on the JWST MIRI instrument have not only detected and measured the mid-infrared intensity of the four young giant planets orbiting the star ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA's James Webb Space ... be able to detect methane and other ...
Image: ROBERTO MOLAR CANDANOSA/JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Using James Webb Space Telescope data, scientists have made the first measurements of an exoplanet’s core mass. Scientists detected a ...