Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool, red dwarf star located just 40 light-years away, promises to tell astronomers more about how planets close to their stars retain or lose their atmospheres. In this ...

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 ...

Astronomers claim to have discovered the strongest signs yet of possible life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. The astronomers detected the chemical fingerprints of gases in the alien ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation – describing it as still in the womb – in a discovery that ...

An immense water world, right in our cosmic backyard, could be teeming with alien life. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has found a pair of gases in a distant alien world's ...