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…
This exoplanet, located about 25 light-years from Earth, could be habitable
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet and a star. Astronomers have recently conducted new…
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…
James Webb Uncovers the Atmosphere of a Hellish Lava World 41 Light-Years Away
Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…
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…
Famous Pink Planet Harbors A Salty Surprise
GJ504b – Grok via astrobiology.com Northwestern University-led astronomers have discovered salty skies surrounding the universe’s famous “Pink Planet.”…
James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object…
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…
The Capability Of CSST In Characterizing Planetary Atmospheres. I. Transmission Spectroscopy Of Hot Jupiters
Free-chemistry retrieval results for WASP-19 b. Left panel: The transmission spectrum derived from simulated CSST transit observation consisting…
James Webb reveals a hellish exoplanet where dawn and dusk have wildly different chemistry
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121…
Reflections of Life: Distinguishing Living from Nonliving Worlds with Complexity Metrics
Biosignatures & Paleobiology Status Report The Astronomical Journal June 14, 2026 Analysis pipeline employed in the present work.…
Connecting Polarization To Exoplanet Yield Calculations For Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Overview of the simulation pipeline components used in this work. The modeling begins with hwo pol, a Poke…