How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...
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James Webb telescope detected turbulent clouds on huge exoplanet that orbits 2 stars

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...
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Strong evidence of life on exoplanet K2-18b turns out to be not so strong after all

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

As Europe’s large ground telescope project advances, how is its US competitor faring?

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...