The James Webb Space Telescope is opening an exciting new chapter in the study of exoplanets and the search for life beyond ...

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 ...

The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days. Researchers ...

Exoplanet scientists have worked on the idea ... to look at different stages of atmospheric evolution because Earth’s atmosphere changed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich while life was present.

NASA writes that researchers are currently exploring the acquired data to determine what type of atmosphere the exoplanet has, or if any atmosphere at all. At the moment, the team can't conclude ...

For years without count, we thought that the Earth was all there was. The Sun and the Moon were merely lights in the sky, one ...

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ... like the thickness and composition of a planet’s atmosphere over time. This expansion of the traditional ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first ... and may either have an atmosphere of pure carbon dioxide or no atmosphere at all.

To search for habitable planets which could potentially support life, NASA launched its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on April 18, 2018. TESS is an all-sky survey mission that will ...

If researchers find clouds around it, then it could be more similar to Venus, which has a carbon dioxide atmosphere. Check out NASA's full writeup to learn more about the new exoplanet.