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

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons ...

Astronomers have identified an extreme exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that is reshaping our understanding of planetary atmospheres. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers discovered that ...

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 ...

What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

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 ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's ...

The exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b came into sharper focus thanks to observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. The research was led by Louis-Philippe Coulombe, a graduate student at ...

The exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare "ultra-hot Neptune," is coming to light thanks to observations via the James Webb Space Telescope led by Louis-Philippe Coulombe, a graduate student at ...

The study offers new insights into the extreme weather patterns and atmospheric properties of this fascinating exoplanet, LTT 9779 b, that resides in the so-called hot Neptune desert, a category ...