Astronomers have spotted barium in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. With its 56 protons, you have to run your…
Finding oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic organisms absorb…
Will we discover simple life somewhere? Maybe on Enceladus or Europa in our Solar System, or further away on an…
People often seem surprised when they learn that NASA doesn't just look out to the other planets, stars, and galaxies.…
The next step to understanding exoplanets is to understand their atmospheres better. Astronomers can determine a planet's mass, density, and…
Mars is a parched planet ruled by global dust storms. It's also a frigid world, where night-time winter temperatures fall…
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot Jupiter about 640 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. A few years ago it…
The CARMENES consortium recently discovered a super-Earth just 21 light-years away that will be the perfect test case for exoplanets…
Upcoming telescopes will give us more power to search for biosignatures on all the exoplanets we've found. Much of the…
Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn't easy since Jupiter's latitudinal cloud bands and its…