01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... and in the case of a water molecule, once it is broken up, the very light hydrogen atoms can escape the exoplanets’ atmosphere. Instruments such as the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) onboard Hubble can then be used to detect the...
30 June 2021
Life as we know it is not possible in Venus' clouds, new study says
... beyond our Solar System. "The JWST will be able to determine atmospheric profiles of temperature, pressure and water abundance in exoplanet atmospheres," the authors write. As such it could be used to narrow down the search for extraterrestrial...
