A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO ...

More information: Amélie Gressier et al, Hints of a sulfur-rich atmosphere around the 1.6 R ⊕ Super-Earth L98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550 ...

The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers said. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the ...

The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon ...

What it did have, perplexingly, was plenty of water vapor. This was strange because a super-Earth planet in tight orbit around a star, a major source of vapor-destroying radiation, was no place for ...

Evidence for atmospheres around super-Earths is comparatively scant. Janssen was discovered via the transit method in 2011, meaning it passed directly in front of its star from our perspective.

Exoplanets — that is, planets we know exist outside of our own Solar System — come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. Some are super … ...

Astronomers at London’s University College London made cosmic history this week, announcing the discovery of hydrogen and helium gas within the atmosphere of a distant super-Earth known as 55 ...

Total solar eclipse as viewed from Earth in 2023. Miloslav Druckmuller, Shadia Habbal, Pavel Starha The study of the solar ...

Compare that to Earth, where the mass-fraction of water is just 0.02%. Advertisement Yet if TOI-152b had been reduced by stellar radiation, there would be no water or atmosphere left at all.