Astronomers have discovered a brand-new class of exoplanet unlike anything previously known. This discovery, featured in ...

What Webb saw: Webb’s infrared data show Kua’kua’s surface is dark, ancient, and basalt-rich, with no detectable atmosphere. Where and how: Located 49 light-years away, Kua’kua orbits a red dwarf in ...

The telescope detected clear signatures of water, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and smaller amounts of methane in the ...

The planet appears to have a size and orbit similar to Earth’s, while it may also lie within its star’s so-called “habitable ...

The Webb telescope has detected a dark, atmosphere-less rocky exoplanet that could shed light on how Earth-like worlds die.

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured the clearest view yet of a rocky exoplanet, revealing a scorching, airless world unlike ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gathered data on a rocky exoplanet with a diameter about 30% larger than Earth - called LHS ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another major step in transforming how scientists study distant worlds. For the first time, astronomers can investigate the surface composition of a rocky ...