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JWST measures 'Hot Jupiter,' a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoFrom that, we could construct a rough map of temperature across the planet,” Taylor Bell, a...
Planet where it's sunny every day spotted 280 light-years away
Newsweek· 2 days agoThis far-off mapping of the planet's weather was made possible thanks to the power of the James Webb...
NASA releases 'unprecedented' Horsehead Nebula image captured by James Webb Space Telescope. What to...
Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis image shows three views of the Horsehead Nebula. The image on the left, released in November...
James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet
SPACE.com· 11 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has performed a weather report for a distant planet. The...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 2 days agoToday the Asteroid Institute announced it has used advanced computational methods to discover 27,500...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
CNN via AOL· 10 hours agoRare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something...
Top astronomy events for May 2024
AccuWeather· 1 day agoFrom shooting stars kicking off the beginning of the month to speedy planet Mercury becoming visible, here are the top astronomy events for May 2024.
Starless Rogue Planet As Heavy As 10 Earths Found By NASA Telescope
IFLScience· 6 days agoNASA’s planet-hunting telescope Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first free-floating, or rogue, planet. This candidate object ...
"Planet Nine" hypothesis gets new boost
Newsweek· 5 days agoA leading scientist has told Newsweek about new evidence supporting the existence of a secret ninth planet lurking at the edge of our solar system. This...
Horsehead Nebula rears its head in gorgeous new James Webb Space Telescope images (video)
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe most powerful telescope ever placed into orbit around our planet, the JWST was able to see...