Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...
may also reveal why Earth uniquely supports life. As advanced telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope explore ...
While the James Webb Space Telescope has detected CO2 and methane on K2-18b, these gases are regularly produced by non-living processes.
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...
Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.
Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is third most dense sub-Saturn class located at the ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.