Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

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

"Detecting biosignature gases via exoplanet atmosphere transmission spectroscopy is in principle within JWST's reach." The question is, how reliable are those detections? Are public expectations ...

It will block a tiny amount of the light. Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use ...

Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use spectroscopy to do this. The light coming out of the star can be observed directly and a small amount of it will ...

Researchers have developed an innovative photodetector capable of detecting a broad range of mid-infrared spectra.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the search for alien life with new tools that detect UAPs and identify Earth-like exoplanets across the galaxy.

To arrive at their conclusions, the scientists employed a technique known as transit spectroscopy ... which gases are present in the exoplanet’s atmosphere. “Given everything we know ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

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

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...

An exoplanet atmosphere Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use spectroscopy to do this. The light coming out of the star can be observed directly ...