Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone - Science@NASA
Jan 31, 2024 · The discovery: A “super-Earth” ripe for further investigation orbits a small, reddish star that is, by astronomical standards, fairly close to us – only 137 light-years away. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet.
NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
Jan 11, 2023 · Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
James Webb Telescope Found a NEW Planet and the LIGHTS …
Jan 5, 2025 · The newly discovered exoplanet is called JWST-47b and is located around 120 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It's what's special about this exoplanet, JWST-47b, that is peculiarly bright in certain wavelengths of infrared light.
Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable …
Jan 28, 2025 · An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier.
Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Feb 16, 2025 · The newly discovered exoplanet, named Gaia-4b, has an orbital period of 570 days and a mass of 12 Jupiter masses and orbits a star 64% of the mass of the Sun. Not only is Gaia-4b the first planet ever detected by Gaia using the astrometric technique whose orbital solution is fully and independently confirmed, but it is also one of the most ...
Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets ...
Jan 11, 2023 · Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb …
Dec 3, 2024 · An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope by a team led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University.
NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth ... - The Verge
Jan 12, 2023 · The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, an Earth-sized rocky planet called LHS 475 b. Located just 41 light-years away, the planet orbits very close to a...
NASA’s Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond …
Feb 14, 2025 · Further, radiation from the Sun and outside the solar system alters the chemistry, creating new, more complex hydrocarbon (organic) molecules such as methanol (CH 3 OH), acetylene (C 2 H 2), and ethane (C 2 H 6). Webb data has confirmed this, but in unexpected ways, and in unprecedented detail. A Groundbreaking Discovery: Three Spectral Classes
Four tiny planets found orbiting one of our nearest stars
2 days ago · Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.