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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study further highlights that the carbon abundance in the ... study galaxies from the... The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first-ever direct images of Neptune’s auroras ...

Cambridge astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the first potential sign of life on another planet.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The James Webb Space Telescope has captured another stunning image ... out the glowing hot molecules of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and dust, which are seen in red and orange.