The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if ...

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) utilizes mid-infrared spectroscopy to precisely analyze molecular components such as ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... that could indicate the presence of atmospheric molecules like carbon dioxide, methane or water vapor, the spectra of sub-Neptunes have generally ...

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...

Sub-Neptunes, planets with diameters bigger than Earth's but smaller than Neptune's, are the most prevalent form of exoplanet ...