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

Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b, JWST observed two ...

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

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.

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 ...

But it only took two transits of the exoplanet in front of its star for ... To learn more about the planet's atmosphere, the team combined data from two transits into one transmission spectrum ...

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... like the thickness and composition of a planet’s atmosphere over time. This expansion of the traditional ...

To search for habitable planets which could potentially support life, NASA launched its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on April 18, 2018. TESS is an all-sky survey mission that will ...

The James Webb Space Telescope discovered its first exoplanet: LHS 475 b ... don't know about the planet is whether it has an atmosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured dazzling ...