Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with distinct temperature ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

The Penn State team discovered the exoplanet using the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder (HPF), a high-resolution spectrometer at the McDonald Observatory in Texas that operates in the near-infrared ...

The first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star reveals an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones.

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Dr. Eric Ford, director of Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, explains the search for planets beyond our solar system, focusing on those in the “habitable zone” where liquid ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the few potentially habitable worlds close enough and positioned just right for the next ...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...