TRAPPIST-1 promises to be one of the best candidates for habitability in the solar neighborhood. Today we will see that the presence of a system-wide cloud of hydrogen could be traced to a history of water loss in the planets in this system.
On KELT-16b you would melt. I would melt too. A look at an exciting and newly discovered Hot Jupiter, and why KELT-16b is a valuable addition to the group of boiling gas giant planets, and a fantastic target for future atmospheric studies.
Observations of ten different exoplanet atmospheres could be the very beginning of a modern-day exoplanet HR diagram.
Have we been misinterpreting our observations of exoplanet atmospheres? Find out why exoplanet scientists fear the wrath of clouds.
Although this planet is far from habitable, scientists have confirmed the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere of the WASP-12 system. What does this infer about its planetary atmosphere? Is this in agreement with other studies? The story is not as black and white as we might have thought.
It sounds convoluted: today’s astrobite observed a lunar eclipse in order to learn about the Earth’s atmosphere, to understand more about how to observe exoplanets. How and why do they do this? Read on…