The scientific instruments on board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are so sensitive that they can tell the weather on an exoplanet a whopping 280 light years away. Using the telescope's mid ...

Can a "Hell Planet" have an atmosphere? In a new paper published May 8 in the journal Nature, researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have finally cracked this decades-old ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the strongest evidence to date for the existence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, 55 Cancri e. This ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e 55 Cancri e is a fiery world. Classified as a rocky ...

Why is the warm gas-giant exoplanet WASP-107 b so puffy? Two independent teams of researchers have an answer. Data collected using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with prior observations ...

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have shed light on the enigmatic super-Earth 55 Cancri e, revealing its likely atmosphere composed of gases… ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy. Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years ...

A surprisingly low reservoir of methane may explain how a planet around a nearby star grew weirdly puffy, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The finding ...

More information: Paolo De Luca et al, The impact of Ozone on Earth-like exoplanet climate dynamics: the case of Proxima Centauri b, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.17972 Journal ...

An artist’s conception of a violent flare erupting from the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Such flares can obliterate atmospheres of nearby planets. Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello. As we discover ...