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 ...
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.
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
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.