Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the…
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…
Bangkok Post – Astronomers find an atmosphere on a nearby Earth-like planet
In an undated image provided by Melissa Weiss/CFA, an artist’s concept of the exoplanet LHS 1140b, 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…
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…
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…
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…
Physiological Trade-offs Drive The archaeal Dominance And Carbon Turnover In Deep Subsurface
Conceptual framework of vertically stratified carbon cycling and microbial succession driven by physiological trade-offs in shelf sediments. Organic…
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…
Decoding Extremophiles: Insights From Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, And Data-driven Approaches
Main categories of extremophiles. This illustration depicts the 10 most common extremophile types, highlighting their defining physicochemical stressors…