Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a ...
JSWT's direct observation of LHS 3844 b's surface is a massive stepping stone for exoplanet geology.
By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther ...
It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.
A NASA mission aims to separate stellar noise from planetary signals, improving how scientists analyze alien atmospheres that ...
Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...
A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according ...
The Astronomy & Astrophysics Department welcomes postdoctoral scientist Emiel Por, who invents technologies that mold the starlight captured by ground- and space-based telescopes to improve imaging of ...
What do the surfaces of rocky exoplanets look like? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...
The study of exoplanets began in 1995, only 30 years ago. Yet today, exoplanet research touches every aspect of ground-based and space-based astronomy and ...