Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

Using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found that the "fluffy" exoplanet WASP-107-b is home to clouds ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.

Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or "exoplanet," around 30 years ago, over 6,000 of these distant worlds have been revealed, with thousands more detected but not yet confirmed.

Conceptual image of an exoplanet with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Structures on the right are orbiting solar panel arrays that harvest light from the parent star and convert it into ...

Marshall, J. P. Moro-Martín, A. Eiroa, C. Kennedy, G. Mora, A. Sibthorpe, B. Lestrade, J.-F. Maldonado, J. Sanz-Forcada, J. Wyatt, M. C. Matthews, B. Horner, J ...