Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists has gotten the best-ever look at a distant planet’s surface.

Astronomers have found thousands of worlds in faraway star systems, but one of the questions that’s been hardest to answer is the one that immediately jumps to any human mind: What does the planet look like?

By analyzing subtle changes in light, researchers found the planet Kua’kua—which orbits a small star in the constellation Indus...