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

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA's James Webb Space ... exoplanet system has 6 'sub-Neptunes' with mathematically perfect orbits The team detected water vapor in TOI-421 b's atmosphere, along with possible signs of carbon ...