Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

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

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

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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 ...