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This is an artist's rendering of the YSES-1 system, which has two gas giant planets. See how the James Webb Space Telescope imaged them in infrared below. Credit: Ellis Bogat illustration Webb usually ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly studied the surface of a rocky exoplanet. Observations of LHS 3844 b, a super-Earth nearly 50 light-years away, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple system Epsilon Indi. The planet is a cold super-Jupiter exhibiting a temperature ...

A lot has changed in exoplanet research in the 30 years since the first exoplanets were detected 1. Thousands of planets have now been catalogued, sporting a huge range of characteristics that show ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.