Characterising exoplanet atmospheres is one of the primary challenges for the coming decades and absolutely essential for our understanding of these alien worlds. Join us today as we dive into some of the ways we can study these distant worlds from the comforts of our labs here on Earth.
Just when you think exoplanet demographics can’t get any weirder, this thing shows up. A hot Jupiter with a thing for carbon that may have been a star but now lives with a dead one. Confused? Read today’s bite.
In today’s paper, we take a look at how pesky clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres with NASA proposed next generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
“Neither too hot nor too cold” goes the usual saying when searching for habitable exoplanets. But surely possessing an atmosphere to begin with is important, right? Discover today how proximity to low-mass stars may strip Earth-like planets of their atmospheres if they don’t keep their distance!
When it rains on WASP-121b, it pours…crystals of rock! Today’s bite explores the JWST phase curve of an extreme exoplanet.
In today’s Astrobite, Guest author Jim Shih discusses what happens when an exoplanet with an atmosphere gets too close to its star!