Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...

In June of 2024, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), aboard Boeing’s ...

By spotting these strong carbon dioxide features, we have shown there is a sizable fraction of heavier elements, like carbon, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...