ScienceFirst Atmosphere Found on Habitable-Zone World LHS 1140bScientists detected helium escaping from rocky exoplanet LHS 1140b—48 light-years away in its star's habitable zone—making it a prime candidate for life.
ScienceJWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First TimeAstronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
