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 ...

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another ... The team attempted to assess what is in the planet's atmosphere by analyzing its transmission spectrum. Although the data ...

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

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 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 ...

This "may be the first direct detection of a 'Gaia exoplanet.'" The newly-discovered exoplanet was almost mistaken for a brown dwarf.

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

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