The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

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

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

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

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

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected potential biosignatures—DMS and DMDS—in the atmosphere of ocean-covered exoplanet K2-18b, 120 light-years ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Astronomers have found the strongest hint yet that life might exist beyond our solar system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This discovery opens a new window into understanding ...

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