Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

In a stunning new finding, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet of life existing beyond our solar system. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers from the University of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Another is the discovery of life on another world, a moment that has inched a little closer today with the news that signs of a gas, which on Earth is produced by simple marine organisms, has been ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation, emit substantial infrared light, providing scientists ...