ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope finds molecules that could only be produced by life in the atmosphere of an alien ...

124 light-years away is ​K2-18b, a distant world orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. It was discovered in ...

Mankind has been looking at the stars for millennia, wondering if were alone in the universe. We now have the best proof that ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Astronomers announced on Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our ...

K2-18b, which is within our galaxy, the Milky Way, cannot be seen by any telescope as a discrete ... that two instruments on the Webb had detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere ...

In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon-based molecules were detected on an exoplanet in a habitable zone. It also ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...