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

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

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 data shows that the exoplanet is an Earth-sized terrestrial (not water covered) world, but it is not known if it has an atmosphere. “The observatory’s data are beautiful,” noted Erin May ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...