by sagesgroup | Jan 23, 2023 | Astronomy, exoplanets, NASA, Science, Space Science, Syndicated, TRAPPIST-1
Future historians might look back on this time and call it the “exoplanet age.” We’ve found more than 5,000 exoplanets, and we’ll keep finding more. Next, we’ll move beyond just finding them, and we’ll turn our efforts to finding biosignatures, the special chemical...by sagesgroup | Jan 12, 2023 | A1, ESA, exoplanets, James Webb Telescope, NASA, Planets, Science, Space Science, tess
Earth has a rocky twin orbiting a dim red star 41 light years away — but it may turn out to be a hot hellworld more like Venus. 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...by sagesgroup | Dec 30, 2022 | A1, Astronomy, Astrophysics, exoplanets, kepler, Planets, Science, Space Science
In a star system 2,600 light years away, a Jupiter-like exoplanet called Kepler-1658b is spiraling toward a fiery collision with its star, and it could shed light on the terrible fate that awaits our own cozy world. Astronomers would have remained blissfully ignorant...by sagesgroup | Nov 24, 2022 | A1, Astronomy, exoplanets, James Webb Telescope, NASA, Planets, Science, Space Science
The future of other worlds is looking bright thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. In newly released findings from the Webb Early Release Science program, researchers obtained the first-ever detailed chemical profile of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and even came to...