This Newly Discovered Super-Earth May Be an Ocean Planet Shrouded in the Deepest of Seas

This week, scientists announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which among its many talents can analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, just confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide on a world orbiting a sun some 700 light-years away. It’s the first observation of CO2 in a planetary atmosphere beyond our solar system. But that discovery, […]