Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b, JWST observed two ...

In August astronomers revealed they had used JWST to detect carbon dioxide on an exoplanet for the first time by watching for signs of the gas in the light of a gas giant planet’s host star filtering ...

The four dots are exoplanets, with the black disk obscuring their star, 133.3 light-years away from Earth. The partial circles are their orbital motions, a time-lapse compiled fro ...

The data shows that the exoplanet is an Earth-sized terrestrial (not water covered) world, but it is not known if it has an atmosphere. “The observatory’s data are beautiful,” noted Erin May ...

Exoplanet scientists have worked on the idea of the VRE as ... It's important to look at different stages of atmospheric evolution because Earth's atmosphere changed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich ...

Related: 10 amazing exoplanet discoveries Following up on Gaia data ... the observation also allowed the researchers to analyze the light spectrum from the planet's atmosphere. The apparent ...

The search for biosignatures on exoplanets got a boost of energy when the James Webb Space Telescope began observations. One of the telescope’s science objectives is to characterize exoplanet ...

Exoplanet LH 475b has a radius about 99 percent the size of Earth’s, but that rocky radius is surrounded by either a choking atmosphere of carbon dioxide — or the vacuum of space, according to ...

Not only was the Webb telescope able to identify LHS 475 b in the Octans constellation, but it was also able to detect a range of molecules that will help determine what the exoplanet's atmosphere ...