Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, DMS ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet ... The colors represent different wavelengths captured ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that ... This marked the first detection of carbon-based molecules on an exoplanet within ...

Madhusudhan told BBC News that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence ... In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating ... previously detected methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study, spoke to Space.com about how the images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and why these ...

Cambridge astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the first potential sign of life on another planet.

In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that ... the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured. The Webb telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provided ...

The study further highlights that the carbon abundance in the ... study galaxies from the... The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first-ever direct images of Neptune’s auroras ...

The researchers relied on data captured by NASA’s James Webb telescope ... found methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the planet. That was the first time that carbon-based molecules ...

Researchers hope to make additional observations with the James Webb Space Telescope ... methane and carbon dioxide. At the time, the discovery served as the best evidence yet that the exoplanet ...