Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

An ocean world that’s teeming with microbes — and who knows what other kinds of life — is currently the best explanation for some chemical signatures that the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted in ...

Scientists have hailed what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system on a planet about 124 light years from Earth. Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.

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