Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Basalt, a gray-black volcanic rock found throughout ... These altered minerals could become amphibole (a hydrous silicate) or serpentine (another hydrous silicate, which looks like a snake's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

These altered minerals could become amphibole (a hydrous silicate) or serpentine (another hydrous silicate, which looks like a snake’s skin). By examining small spectral differences between the basalt ...