The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.

NASA's Webb telescope has captured images of multiple planets in a nearby star system, confirming that Webb can infer exoplanet atmospheres' chemistry.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary ...