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

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

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

We begin with concepts and variables used to quantify radiation traveling through a planetary atmosphere. As a foundational language for exoplanet atmospheres, these radiation terms are so important ...

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 ...

Exoplanet LH 475b has a radius about 99 percent the size of Earth’s, but that rocky radius is surrounded by either a choking atmosphere of carbon dioxide — or the vacuum of space, according to ...

likely thanks to the presence of an atmosphere. Typically, when scientists say that an exoplanet resides in a habitable zone, they mean that it orbits within the range of distances from its host ...

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 ...

The atmosphere of an exoplanet about 900 light years from Earth is so hot that its surface metals are vaporizing and escaping the planet’s gravitational pull. As if that wasn’t enough ...

Despite having an intense surface temperature of about 232°C (450°F), it is possible that the exoplanet has an atmosphere that is thin and wispy. Laura Schaefer, astronomer from Harvard ...