Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other exoplanetary systems ... added, "We knew JWST could measure colors of the outer ...