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 ...

taking its tally of moons to 274 -- the most for any planet in the Solar System. International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery made by a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the ...

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...

Additionally, prior to this 90% water discovery, scientists thought the planet only had less than 30% water. Having such high water content is profound. If this is 100% true, then it means Ceres will ...

the team pinpointed the Solar System's passage through the Radcliffe Wave in the Orion region about 14 million years ago. "This discovery builds upon our previous work identifying the Radcliffe ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ... the scientists behind this discovery also think there's a chance that ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... This article was updated March 14 at 11:05 a.m. ET to account for the discovery of 128 new moons around Saturn. The number of small ...

The discovery of these salt minerals has broader implications for understanding the role of water in the development of planets and moons in the outer Solar System. Researchers expect similar sodium ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the ... But for this latest discovery, "we're actually seeing ...

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