Category Archives: Exoplanet Science

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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A very stealthy alias: the impostor planet of Barnard’s star

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Paul M Robertson

Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star system to our own Solar system.  Barnard’s star made the news in late 2018, when the CARMENES team announced the discovery of … Continue reading →

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