Could James Webb Detect Life on Earth ?
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would be able to detect life on Earth if it were observing us…
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James Webb and the Ocean Covered Planet
James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of carbon-based molecules in the atmosphere of an ocean-covered planet. The…
MANTIS, James Webb’s assistant
Search for exoplanets by the James Webb Space Telescope will receive assistance from a much smaller satellite (cubesat),…
TESS discovers two super Earths
Astronomers, using the TESS space telescope, have discovered two exoplanets, two super-Earths, within the habitable zone of a…
The gaze of James Webb on Gliese 1214b
James Webb Space Telescope has taken a closer look at an exoplanet, Gliese 1214b (GJ 1214b), a world…
The atmospheres of gas giants are variable
The atmospheres of gas giant planets orbiting the Sun show a clear pattern – the larger the planet,…
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b has no atmosphere
New measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b orbiting a star…
Wolf 1069b: a rocky planet like Earth
An analysis led by astronomer Diana Kossakowski from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has found a rocky…
TOI700: second Earth-like planet
A NASA mission has identified a second planet, named TOI700, Earth-like planet and in orbit around a star…
How many planets are there in the universe?
The answer is much simpler than one might think: there are only eight planets in the universe, namely…