The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

Ever heard of an ultra-hot Neptune? Meet LTT 9779 b, an exoplanet where dayside temperatures reach a scorching 2,000 °C, which is hot enough to melt some metals! Yet, Louis-Philippe Coulombe ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching hot exoplanet LTT 9779 b. "Finding a planet of this size so close to its host star is like ...

Strange clouds of silicate minerals coat one side of LTT 9779 b’s dayside—while the other is bare. Astronomers suspect fierce winds sculpt this bizarre asymmetry in the planet’s atmosphere.

Illustration of LTT 9779 b, the only known ultra-hot Neptune. Using the Webb Space Telescope, researchers mapped its dynamic atmosphere, discovering powerful winds, silicate clouds, and traces of ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that challenges current ideas about how planets form. This world, which belongs to a rare class of “hot ...

What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts ...

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 ...