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Webb space telescope helps spot planet losing atmosphere
Updated On: 05 December, 2025 08:07 AM IST | Texas | Agencies
Planetary atmospheres can sometimes leak into space. Earth experiences this as well, losing a little more than 3 kg of material every second (mainly hydrogen), and this loss cannot be reversed
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An artist’s view of WASP-107b. PIC COURTESY/Thibaut Roger
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Researchers have detected enormous clouds of helium drifting away from the exoplanet WASP-107b using the James Webb Space Telescope.
Planetary atmospheres can sometimes leak into space. Earth experiences this as well, losing a little more than 3 kg of material every second (mainly hydrogen), and this loss cannot be reversed.
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