Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b ...

The four dots are exoplanets, with the black disk obscuring their star, 133.3 light-years away from Earth. The partial circles are their orbital motions, a time-lapse compiled fro ...

The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days. Researchers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the existence of its first exoplanet, named LHS 475 b, which is almost as big as ...

“The exoplanet community is just giddy at the ... of a gas giant planet’s host star filtering through the world’s atmosphere. Known as transmission spectroscopy, this technique is incredibly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023. Explore the rest of ...

Exoplanet scientists have worked on the idea ... It's important to look at different stages of atmospheric evolution because Earth's atmosphere changed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich while ...

Planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin to receive almost two million euros to research rocky exoplanets Professor Lena Noack from the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität ...

Not only was NASA's James Webb Space Telescope able to identify the exoplanet but it was also able to detect a range of ...