A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

A report about exoplanet K2-18b published on April 17 states that astronomers are one step closer to answering whether humans ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.