But that estimate assumes Wolf 1069b has an Earth-like atmosphere, and so far astronomers don’t have enough information about ...

Just 31 light-years away, astronomers have identified an incredibly rare Earth-sized world orbiting at a distance from its ...

However, according to existing knowledge, it is quite possible that Wolf 1069 b has formed an atmosphere. Under this ...

Hustak (STScI) The big aim, though, is for Webb to detect exoplanet atmospheres. The researchers were able to gather some data on the newly detected planet’s atmosphere and to rule out some ...

When a planet gets that close to its host star, it can have its atmosphere stripped away by the star’s heat and radiation. In the case of the recently discovered exoplanet LHS 475 b ...

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another ... The team attempted to assess what is in the planet's atmosphere by analyzing its transmission spectrum. Although the data ...

The data shows that the exoplanet is an Earth-sized terrestrial (not water covered) world, but it is not known if it has an atmosphere. “The observatory’s data are beautiful,” noted Erin May ...

“The exoplanet community is just giddy at the ... of a gas giant planet’s host star filtering through the world’s atmosphere. Known as transmission spectroscopy, this technique is incredibly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023. Explore the rest of ...