Tidally locked exo-Earth has a lava ocean hemisphere By David Szondy January 11, 2024 HD 63433 d is a small, rocky planet in a tight orbit of its star NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle View 1 Images ...

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Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most ...

NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...

"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." The saga surrounding Neptune-size "super-Earth" exoplanet K2-18 b ...

A two-year contract awarded to ABB from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will see key ABB/Nüvü Camēras technology fly onboard the space telescope in 2025, on course to capture the first spaceborne ...