Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
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.