In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

An astonishing new claim that we have finally discovered “alien life” has left the space world reeling. The world of ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered groundbreaking insights into the world of sub-Neptunes, a class of exoplanets that have long puzzled astronomers. These small, gassy planets, although ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

The findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The existence of sub-Neptunes was unexpected before they were discovered by NASA's retired Kepler space telescope in the last decade.

Daniel E. Kepler, age 91, of Springettsbury Township, York, passed away on Friday, April 25, 2025. Born on May 5, 1933, in Smethport, PA, Daniel was the beloved son of John Wilbur Kepler and ...

A recent study published using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... are needed to increase the robustness of the findings.” Other scientists have also pointed out that ...

In April 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope stared at the host star of the planet ... meaning it is the first planet in the 18th planetary system found by the extended NASA Kepler mission, K2.