Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of each determines what they’ll look for next,…
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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water — ScienceDaily
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large…
The Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet
The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained. (Its photo looks grainier than…
Analysis finds evidence for many exoplanets made of water and rock around small stars —…
Water is the one thing all life on Earth needs, and the cycle of rain to river to ocean to rain is an essential part of what keeps our planet's climate…
The James Webb telescope spotted CO2 in an exoplanet’s atmosphere
The James Webb Space Telescope has gotten the first sniff of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet in another solar system.
“It’s…
New Method Detects Radio Signals to Find Exoplanets
Exoplanets are those cosmic bodies or planets that orbit a star outside our solar system. According to NASA, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed…
Some mini-Neptune exoplanets may evolve into super-Earths
Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths may have a lot more in common than just being superlatives.
Four gaseous exoplanets, each a bit smaller than…
Exoplanets With Leaking Atmosphere Could Explain Gap in Planetary Evolution
Scientists have discovered four exoplanets that appear to be shrinking in size and losing their atmosphere gradually. The rate at which this change is…
Telescope Using Sun’s Gravitational Lens Could Help Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets,…
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has funded a project to develop a telescope that would help observe exoplanets by using the gravitational…
New Method to Discover Exoplanets Orbiting Violent Dead Stars Suggested by Researchers
Researchers have suggested a new way to detect planets that orbit around dead stars known as Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), which are essentially binary star…