Category Archives: Exoplanet Science

The Unusual Transit of TOI-3884b: A Pole-Spot Crossing Super-Neptune

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Jessica Libby-Roberts

The TESS Mission For the past five years, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed the sky searching for new planets orbiting our closest stellar companions. To accomplish this colossal task, this satellite stares at hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

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TOI-2136b: Habitable, but not to us?

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Paul M Robertson

Will Life on Other Planets Look Like Ours? Finding life somewhere other than Earth would be a truly monumental discovery, but will we know it when we see it? For as long as astronomers have been studying the stars, they … Continue reading →

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A Search for Planetary Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Introduction Understanding how planets form and evolve is one of the fundamental topics of research in exoplanet science. How do planets and their atmospheres form? What are their atmospheres composed of, and how do they evolve with time? The current … Continue reading →

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