The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet's atmosphere. On Earth, DMS ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." Astronomers have used the James ...

A "fast-feeding" black hole that appeared to defy physics is actually pretty ordinary, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal. In November 2024, astronomers using JWST ...