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 ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Researchers have also speculated that additional distant worlds captured from interstellar space by the ... 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

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 ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...