Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World
In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a helium-rich…
Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b
Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS…
Nearby “Super Earth” May Be A Better Candidate For Life Than Previously Thought
[UT Austin] Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby…
Nearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for life
GJ 3378b has moved closer to the kind of world astronomers most want to find: small, rocky, temperate,…
Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
Maximum Lifetime Of The Vegetative Biosphere
ExoCAM simulations of Earth from the present up to 2.0 Gyr in the future, assuming CO2 remains fixed…
Rocky planets smaller than Earth may be too small to stay habitable
While a planet can orbit around a Sun-like star and sit comfortably within its habitable zone, it could…
Between Eternal Night And Day, The Faces Of Two Cousins Of The Earth
This artist’s impression displays TRAPPIST-1 and its planets reflected in a surface. The potential for water on each…
Proton Irradiation of Primitive Atmospheres of Young Exoplanets And Early Earth: N2O Greenhouse Warming And Prebiotic Synthesis
The figure shows the HPLC Chromatograms of Amino Acids produced in the Sample B5 irradiation run. — astro-ph.EP…
Bombshell NASA data identifies 45 ‘habitable’ rocky worlds | Science | News
A major new study has pinpointed 45 rocky planets beyond our solar system that could support life, in…
The TOLIMAN Mission: A Low-cost Space Telescope For High Precision Narrow-angle Astrometry
The strength of indirect detection signals from an Earth-like exoplanet as a function of stellar effective temperature. Bands…
Spectral Decomposition Reveals Surface Processes on Europa
Qualitative projections of the best-fit three-dimensional spherical-harmonic model to the jointly decomposed first spatial mode, u(1), derived from…