The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

After all, observed exoplanet spectra represent a highly averaged ... "The example of the tentative detection of DMS in K2-18 b's atmosphere is the exoplanet community's first encounter with ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

On Earth, DMS is made by ocean plankton, then quickly broken down in the atmosphere through photochemical and other reactions ...

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

The exoplanet K2-18b, located about 120 light ... JWST detected methane and carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere—compounds that, together, strongly indicate a hydrogen-rich environment ...