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

Madhusudhan told BBC News that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence ... In 2023, the Webb telescope detected methane and carbon dioxide in K2-18b's atmosphere, the first time such carbon ...

The latest findings build on previous research by the same group of astronomers, who also detected carbon dioxide and methane within the planet’s atmosphere using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that ... This marked the first detection of carbon-based molecules on an exoplanet within ...

Our latest and most powerful tool yet built, the James Webb Space Telescope ... dioxide in a relatively nearby exoplanet called K2-18b, both carbon-based molecules. That was the first time ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating ... previously detected methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Look alive: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... and earlier data from NIRISS and NIRSpec—revealed methane and carbon dioxide, but very little ammonia, on the planet. The curious mix ...

In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that ... the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured. The Webb telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provided ...

Using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... including methane and carbon dioxide. At the time, the discovery served as the best evidence yet that the exoplanet had the ...