William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study, spoke to Space.com about how the images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and why these ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Madhusudhan told BBC News that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence ... In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that ... This marked the first detection of carbon-based molecules on an exoplanet within ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just achieved a historic first by capturing direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet ... The colors represent different wavelengths captured ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating ... previously detected methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Our latest and most powerful tool yet built, the James Webb Space Telescope ... dioxide in a relatively nearby exoplanet called K2-18b, both carbon-based molecules. That was the first time ...

Using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... including methane and carbon dioxide. At the time, the discovery served as the best evidence yet that the exoplanet had the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) captured this image of ... "Since the Earth's atmosphere has a lot of carbon dioxide, [it] blocks a large amount of ...