... hypothesis is the best explanation for the available observations.” And what a find it would be. Although the field of exoplanet research started off slowly, scientists have since become very good at finding a myriad of different worlds in thousands...
... flowing hot body that is hiding 550 light-years away in an exoplanet system known as WASP-49b. Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four ...gas we are now detecting in the spectra of a dozen exoplanets.” Of the five systems Oza and colleagues studied, Wasp ...
... period of the hypothetical Earth-like planet's orbit. The team also looked at the "climate inertia" of a hypothetical exoplanet. “Climate inertia" is the speed at which the atmosphere responds to changes in irradiation; the faster the mean surface...
... of the University of British Columbia and one of the co-authors of a paper recently submitted to Science Advances. "The size of an exoplanet is measured relative to the size of its parent star. If you find a planet around a star that you think...
... in the fabric of spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein over a century ago. Scientists also discovered the nearest exoplanet to us orbiting our nearest star, Proxima B, speculating that it might be a water-world similar to our own, ESO sent...
... atmosphere, where ultraviolet sunlight breaks molecules apart, ultraviolet starlight can break water vapour in the atmospheres of exoplanets into hydrogen and oxygen.” This happens when photons of a certain energy break the bonds of molecules into...