This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but rather the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — 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 ...

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Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

reflects a bit more sunlight into space than Voyager had found. This means that the sun heats the planet less than previously thought, suggesting that Uranus must generate some heat to explain its ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 300 exoplanetary systems that have three or more known planets ... closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different.

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed ... us understand the universe we live in and understand the sun that keeps our planet alive.” After launching, SPHEREx will spend just ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly ... to get a better view of the planets revolving around them. "It's like putting your thumb up in front of the sun when you're looking up at the ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system.