James Webb Space Telescope reveals a hot rocky exoplanet surface. Learn JWST exoplanet findings, basalt crust, and first-ever ...

JSWT's direct observation of LHS 3844 b's surface is a massive stepping stone for exoplanet geology.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a ...

Epsilon Indi Ab was first discovered in 2002 and was officially confirmed to exist in 2018. It is considered an exoplanet, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, directly studied the surface of a rocky exoplanet, LHS 3844 b, about 49 light-years away. The planet is a hot, airless super-Earth with a ...

Data analyzed by UChicago scientists reveals exoplanet Kua’kua is dark and rocky, offering clues to search for habitable ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

Without an atmosphere to shield it, LHS 3844 b is bombarded by stellar radiation and micrometeorites.

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Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system—using a technique known as "transit timing variation." In research ...