Another Earth-size exoplanet discovered in habitable zone of nearby star
NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered a second Earth-size planet within the habitable zone of a…
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NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, an Earth-sized rocky planet called LHS 475 b. Located just 41 light-years away, the…
The Morning After: The Webb Telescope discovers an exoplanet almost the same diameter of Earth
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded another inaugural milestone: its first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet. LHS 475 b is just 41 light…
The Webb Telescope’s first confirmed exoplanet is 99 percent the diameter of Earth
Having already returned visually stunning and scientifically spectacular results from its first six months in operation, the James Webb Space Telescope has…
JWST peers into the atmosphere of an exoplanet bombarded by stellar radiation
This week, astronomers announced that they’d found evidence of chemical reactions in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 700 light years away from Earth.…
An exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored another first: a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world's skies.
The telescope's array…
How this NASA mission could get a high-resolution image of an exoplanet
One of the most exciting aspects of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is its ability to image and gather information about exoplanets. But while JWST…
The Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet
The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained. (Its photo looks grainier than…
James Webb snaps picture of an exoplanet for the first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet for the first time. This is exciting because it is very rare for exoplanets to be…
Here’s the James Webb telescope’s first direct image of an exoplanet
This is the first picture of an exoplanet from the James Webb Space Telescope.
“We’re actually measuring photons from the atmosphere of the…