... of Earth's water. Although we have only scratched the surface in our hunt for Earth-like worlds in other exo-systems, many of the 3,800 planets we’ve found so far appear to be rocky bodies not significantly different from our...
... with difficulties. Currently, scientists primarily use one of two methods to understand the chemical composition of an exo-atmosphere; the transmission spectroscopy or direct imaging techniques, the latter of which is extremely challenging and...