Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Take a moment to breathe in the air around you and really appreciate it, because that oxygen-rich atmosphere you enjoy so ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

Researchers have detected a thick atmosphere around a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice as big as Earth and classified as a super Earth. The atmosphere of 55 Cancri e consists of carbon ...

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that's twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, ...

JWST observations of exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d reveal a lack of a substantial, Earth-like atmosphere, as indicated by a "flat" spectral signature lacking typical atmospheric molecule fingerprints (e.g., ...