The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The HR 8799 system ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planetary ... finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in ... helped capture detailed images of planets ...

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

It's tremendously challenging to capture direct images of exoplanets ... world in our system. The Webb telescope captured clear "spectral fingerprints" of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ...

Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture ... dioxide and carbon monoxide on HR 8799 e. Now they hope to use ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct ... born by first forming heavy, solid cores that pulled in lighter elements nearby — like carbon dioxide — slowly ...

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 ...