R esearchers using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected an atmosphere surrounding 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date ...

It took a few attempts, but JWST has finally found strong evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky world outside our solar ...

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

And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets ... to creatures anything like us – like 55 Cancri e, the lava-world imagined by NASA artists below ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 55 Cancri e – a planet eight times the size of Earth – is 40 light-years away. Astronomers just found out what its air is made of. Produced by Matthew Stuart.