Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

A Henrico man has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in a tragic crash that claimed the lives of three James Madison University students two years ago.

Campbell Fortune, the driver in a fatal 2023 car crash that killed three fellow James Madison University students, was sentenced in Hardy Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon.

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A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

These planets, known as sub-Neptunes, are much bigger than the rocky planets in our inner solar system, but smaller than ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), marking a milestone in the study of the outer reaches of the solar system.

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