Astronomers Probe Chemistry of Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have measured the ratio of…
Experts create new method to defend Earth against solar storms
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a strong solar flare released by the Sun on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Following…
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…
ThousandWorlds: A Benchmark For Climate Emulation Of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Dataset overview. Output fields are defined on a 32 × 64 latitude–longitude grid. There are 53 fields in…
Pink Planet surprised scientists with its salt clouds
Spectroscopic studies had previously shown that the exoplanet GJ504b is shrouded in a pink haze. However, since then,…
Acidophilic Fungi As Possible Candidates For Living Forms In Venus’ Clouds
Present-day Venus, similar to Earth in terms of relative radius, acceleration of gravity and mean density, is characterised…
An Unidentified Absorption Feature At 5.11 μm On The Surface Of Titan And Pluto From JWST Spectroscopy
NIRSpec average spectrum of Titan (black) compared with a radiative transfer calculation in which the surface albedo decreases…
The Mass of TOI-1883 b: A Low Density Super-Neptune In The Ridge Regime Transiting An Early-M dwarf
Planets orbiting M-type stars (Teff < 4000K) are plotted in black on the orbital period–planet radius diagram. TOI-1883…
NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The…
Ultraviolet-Driven Atmospheric Degeneracies Challenge Conventional Biosignature Frameworks for Terrestrial Planets with Ultracool M Dwarf Hosts: An Archean-Analog TRAPPIST-1 e Case Study
Comparison of input SEDs used in this study and molecular photoabsorption cross sections relevant to Archean-analog photochemistry. The…
Predictive Rankings of the Probability for Temperate Terrestrial Worlds for the HWO ExEP Mission Star List
The simulated occurrence rates of planets in both simulated (blue) and known (orange) planetary systems around nearby stars.…
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
This plot shows currently known exoplanets, with different categories highlighted. Roman will help fill in the bottom-right of…