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The first-ever analysis of the atmosphere of an alien planet classified as a so-called "super-Earth" has revealed a distant world that is likely covered with either water vapor or a thick haze, ...

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In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning distant exoplanets from anonymous dots of light into worlds with weather, chemistry, and sometimes even hints of clouds. By dissecting the faint starlight ...

It’s 1993 and I am twelve years old. It is a rainy afternoon and I’m over at a friend’s house. Downstairs, the adults are having a party, so we’re up in one of the upstairs bedrooms huddled around a ...

A new NASA device the size of a microwave oven is capable of plucking oxygen out of thin air — thin Martian air, to be precise. Over the course of 16 tests aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, ...