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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Again, astronomers rely on starlight. When a planet transits in front of a star, light passes through the exoplanet's atmosphere, through space, and ultimately into instruments called ...

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 ...

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 has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first ... and may either have an atmosphere of pure carbon dioxide or no atmosphere at all.