Using observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun called TOI ...
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Feb 12, 2021
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An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was announced just last month.
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Oct 26, 2020
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Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate the search for life.
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Jan 6, 2020
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The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for water in the solar system ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2019
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When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2021, one of its most anticipated contributions to astronomy will be the study of exoplanets—planets orbiting distant stars. Among the most pressing questions in exoplanet ...
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Dec 3, 2019
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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are cooking up an alien atmosphere right here on Earth. In a new study, JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen ...
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Mar 15, 2019
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Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon.
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Dec 6, 2018
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An international team of researchers has identified 'fingerprints' of multiple metals in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found.
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Jun 1, 2018
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Astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet that orbits a star far beyond our solar system for the very first time.
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May 2, 2018
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Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system, with an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron.
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Aug 2, 2017
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