How do you build a moon? The James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best look

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

NASA’s Webb telescope gets never-before-seen look at how moons form on exoplanets

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

Researchers find a carbon-rich moon-forming disk around giant exoplanet

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Surveying Io's Surface with the UNAGI lander

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

New Discovery Reveals Just How Different the Moon’s Two Sides Really Are

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...
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Webb spots moon-forming disk around massive exoplanet

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around ...