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Learn more about TWA 7 b, an exoplanet with the mass of Saturn that was captured by creating a fake eclipse.
French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet ...
John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last ...
The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...
But JWST still managed to capture an image of TWA 7 b, the designation given to the new exoplanet. To overcome this problem, ...
In a groundbreaking first, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of a distant exoplanet ...
Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
With Voyager 2 in the background, John Casani holds a small U.S. flag that was sewn into the spacecraft's thermal blankets ...
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Likely Saturn-Mass Planet Imaged by NASA Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen
The telescope’s MIRI instrument, managed by NASA JPL through launch, detected a compact object in the disk of debris ...
Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...
After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope ...