The James Webb Space Telescope recently detected its first exoplanet, but its real promise is in studying exoplanet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is opening an exciting new chapter in the study of exoplanets and the search for life beyond ...

methane-dominated atmosphere like Saturn's largest moon Titan, said APL exoplanet researcher Jacob Lustig-Yaeger. But the data still pins the team between two bookend possibilities: a planet with no ...

The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days. Researchers ...

The amount of light that is transmitted also depends on how dense the atmosphere is and how warm it is.” As this transmission spectrum shows, JWST did not observe a detectable quantity of any element ...

Exoplanet LH 475b has a radius about 99 percent the size of Earth’s, but that rocky radius is surrounded by either a choking atmosphere of carbon dioxide — or the vacuum of space, according to ...

Exoplanet scientists have worked on the idea ... to look at different stages of atmospheric evolution because Earth’s atmosphere changed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich while life was present.

Furthermore, Webb’s capabilities allowed the team to attempt to characterize the exoplanet’s atmosphere and composition. “There is no question that the planet is there. Webb’s pristine data validated ...

For years without count, we thought that the Earth was all there was. The Sun and the Moon were merely lights in the sky, one ...