"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first ...

In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It’s also the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

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In 2018 and 2019, then-Ph.D. student Benjamin V. Rackham, astrophysicist Mark Giampapa and I published a series of studies showing how darker starspots and brighter, magnetically active stellar ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in exoplanet parlance, it’s all but a cosmic featherweight. TWA 7b, which ...

Given that Saturn is nearly 100 times more massive than Earth, it seems like a joke to refer to an exoplanet of the same weight as "light." But that's what NASA and the European Space Agency, one of ...