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Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

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Four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard's Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system, are seen in this illustration released on March 11, 2025. International Gemini ...

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) telescope was one of several proposal that were incorporated into the Habitable ...

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"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...