27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
...form. HR8799e is also completely inhospitable too; the exoplanet suffers from a powerful greenhouse effect – a bit...super giant to a scorching hot temperature of roughly 1000 °C. The exoplanet also wouldn’t have very pleasant ‘air’ to breathe if you ...
26 April 2016
Sulphur chemistry could be the key to clouds on many exoplanets
...of investigation. Not only that, but the first exoplanet photochemical models of hot Jupiters, showed that small ... important sulphur might be as a major constituent in exoplanet atmospheres. For further information on this research, please see...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
... is by far the most successful method and it relies on a detector sampling the light that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it passes in front of its host star. However, the fraction of stellar light that passes through a transiting...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
...difficult than imagined as a new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable...it will have the sensitivity to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and to search for the building blocks of life elsewhere ...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... the location of its first find - a super-Earth exoplanet around a younger, but bigger version of our sun. Located...the preliminary analysis suggests that Pi Mensae c, the newly found exoplanet, is around four times as massive as Earth and contains ...
07 January 2019
Two new firsts for exoplanets found by TESS
...uncovering worlds such as these is the recently-launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But finding a rocky planet orbiting... just that. Known as HD 21749b, TESS has found an exoplanet that takes 36 days to traverse its host star; this ...
