Lucas Brefka receives funding from a NASA Exoplanet Research Program ... send it to [email protected]. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. By studying computer models and observing the creation of other star ...

The ice that NASA's Webb discovered has a crystalline structure, which is also present in other well-researched regions of the solar system ... in the study of planet formation by observing ...

Pravrajya Suruchi Updated : May 17, 2025, 10:16 PM IST For the first time, scientists have shown the presence of frozen water or water ice, outside our Solar System, way to NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Are planets in the solar system that are closer ...