Piette said an atmosphere would allow gases like water vapor to absorb some wavelengths of light, keeping the telescope's ...

Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left) similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa or be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (centre). LHS ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Caption: This artist’s concept shows what a thick atmosphere above a vast magma ocean on exoplanet TOI-561 b could look like.

Ocean World: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is providing scientists with a closer look at previously discovered exoplanets. Two teams of researchers have now used the NASA telescope to analyze ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has once again peered into the atmosphere of an exoplanet, and this time it has identified indications that the planet could be covered in oceans. The planet K2-18 b is ...

A planet relatively close to Earth could be the first ever detected with a potentially life-sustaining liquid ocean outside our Solar System, according to scientists using the James Webb space ...

A multi-institutional team of astronomers, Earth scientists and planetary physicists has found evidence, via data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), that some hycean exoplanets may have ...

Reports of life signs detected in the atmosphere of the potential ocean world K2-18 b may have been premature. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A University of Michigan astronomer used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover an exoplanet with a promising temperature, an indication of possible liquid water present. The discovery ...