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

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating that a ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Launched on December 25, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a potent observatory built to conduct in-depth studies of the universe’s oldest galaxies and far-off exoplanets. The ...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide on planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced March 17. The ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope - sort of a postmortem examination - indicate that the planet's demise happened differently than initially thought. Instead of the star coming to ...