James Webb Space Telescope directly studies an exoplanet’s surface for the 1st time: ‘We see a dark, hot, barren rock’
Scientists say this high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, which the JWST just observed. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly analyzed the surface of a planet beyond our solar system, TheContinue Reading










