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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, ...
Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous planet. Looks like it’s true.
K2-18b is a little over 120 light-years from Earth — on a galactic scale, this world is practically in our backyard.
A new study shows TOI-270 d is a fiery rocky exoplanet, offering fresh insight into the galaxy’s most common planet type.
The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...
A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...
Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...
A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...
K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...
That exoplanet is 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. It's described as much larger than Earth but smaller than ...
The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...
A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...