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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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First direct image of CO2 outside our solar system captured by Webb
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope peers straight at Saturn-like planets 130 light-years away
The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA’s most precise and technically ... The observatory seized images of four “giant” planets in the solar system of a distant star called HR 8799.
Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
Cosmic Breakthrough as Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide on Young Alien Planets
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...