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Sep 14, 2023 · Earlier this week, Live Science reported that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could likely detect signs of extraterrestrial life on an Earth-like planet up to 50 light-years away. Now, a ...
Jan 11, 2023 · A light curve from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) shows the change in brightness from the LHS 475 star system over time as the planet transited the star on August 31, 2022. LHS 475 b is a rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star roughly 41 light-years away, in the constellation Octans.
Sep 29, 2023 · Numerous missions that are either under way or about to begin mark a new space race for the biggest scientific discovery of all time. "We live in an infinite Universe, with infinite stars and planets.
Jun 19, 2020 · The search for planets going around other stars by instruments like the Kepler space telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sattellite, or TESS, have turned up more than 4,000 planets just ...
1. Extremophiles. The more we learn about micro-organisms on Earth, the more we’re surprised by the incredible adaptability of life. The hardiest lifeforms are known as extremophiles and they’ve been discovered surviving in some very inhospitable environments. They’ve been found in boiling-hot hydrothermal vents, beneath freezing-cold ...
May 4, 2021 · Over time, the biochemistry of billions of creatures can transform a world in distinctive ways. By analysing the wavelengths of light that come through the planet’s atmosphere, we can look for ...
Jul 16, 2024 · NASA's Exoplanet Archive confirmed four new worlds, bringing the total past 5,500. On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502. From zero exoplanet confirmations to over 5,500 in just a few ...
