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

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

The researchers relied on data captured by NASA’s James Webb telescope ... found methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the planet. That was the first time that carbon-based molecules ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet ... The colors represent different wavelengths captured ...

Madhusudhan told BBC News that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence ... In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study, spoke to Space.com about how the images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and why these ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating ... previously detected methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that ... This marked the first detection of carbon-based molecules on an exoplanet within ...

Using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... including methane and carbon dioxide. At the time, the discovery served as the best evidence yet that the exoplanet had the ...

The study further highlights that the carbon abundance in the ... study galaxies from the... The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first-ever direct images of Neptune’s auroras ...