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 ...

Since it was launched and started operations in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered many secrets and the ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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