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"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...
Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.
Planet TOI-421b lacks the haze of other exoplanets, which means we're able to get a surprisingly clear understanding of it.
These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.
NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...
The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.
Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...
In June 2024 NASA announced that failing machinery ... NASA launched Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, in 2021, although unlike Hubble, JWST is stationed so far beyond Earth ...
A team of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope believe exoplanet K2-18b is a Hycean world, covered in a global ocean. Credit: Shang-Min Tsai / UCR illustration A team of scientists is ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 83 galaxy. Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument detected highly ...