We report initial observations aimed at the characterization of a third interstellar object candidate.
Photoionization by high-energy photons creates nonthermal electrons with a broad range of energies that heat and chemically transform the atmospheres of planets.
Sorcha is a solar system survey simulator built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and future large-scale wide-field surveys.
Lava planets are rocky exoplanets that orbit so close to their host star that their day-side is hot enough to melt silicate rock. Their short orbital periods ensure that lava […]
When a planet is ejected from its star-planet system due to dynamical interactions, its satellite may remain gravitationally bound to the planet.
Atmospheric escape’s potential to shape the exoplanet population motivates detailed observations of systems actively undergoing escape.
The relative abundances of exotic environments provides us with (uninformed) bounds on the habitability of those environments relative to our own, on the basis that our presence here is not […]
Mobile communication towers represent a relatively new but growing contributor to the total radio leakage associated with planet Earth.
IMAGE Caption: Sketch showing processes leading to larger H-loss in the past 20 million years (Myr). The loss rate is not expected to have been constant with time, and may […]
As the discovery of exoplanets progresses at a rapid pace, the large number of known planets provides a pathway to assess the stellar and planetary properties that govern the climate […]
