Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

Astronomers may have found the strongest hint of life beyond Earth thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes and phytoplankton.

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from ...

This week, learn why experts are divided over an exoplanet, see the first footage of a colossal squid in its deep-sea habitat ...

While the Webb Telescope watched exoplanet K2‑18b glide across its parent star, sulfur‑bearing gases appeared in the planet’s ...

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

The strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system has been found by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge.

In 1996, a Nasa team announced a Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica bore signs of past alien life. Specimen ALH84001 ...