Exoplanets

Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The recently discovered super-Earth, TOI-715 b, might be making its appearance at just the right time. Its parent star is a red ...

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds | MIT News

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on ...

Methane throughout the atmosphere of the warm exoplanet WASP-80b

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Öberg, K. I., Murray-Clay, R. & Bergin, E. A. The effects of snowlines on C/O in planetary atmospheres. Astrophys. J. Lett. 743, ...