Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Webb Space Telescope reveals a surprisingly clear atmosphere on planet TOI-421 b, helping scientists understand the evolution ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered groundbreaking insights into the world of sub-Neptunes, a class of exoplanets ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Canada’s Kepler Communications said it has successfully demonstrated optical data links between a prototype satellite in low ...

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

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

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

which were first identified by NASA's pioneering Kepler space telescope. Before JWST, attempts to study the atmospheres of sub-Neptune planets using transmission spectra — the measurement of ...