As recently announced, a new 500-hour Director’s Discretionary Time (DDT) program will use JWST observations to search for atmospheres in more than a dozen nearby exoplanet systems. In tandem, around […]
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Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Time (DDT) Selects Its First Targets
The Rocky Worlds DDT Program will use JWST to search for atmospheres around a dozen nearby M-dwarf exoplanets while using HST to characterize activity in the host stars. Over the […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Proxima Centauri, Status Report, TRAPPIST-1
STScI Initiates A Concerted Search For Atmospheres Around M-dwarf Exoplanets
The STScI Director, Dr. Jennifer Lotz, has accepted the primary recommendation of the Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives , and has decided to proceed with a large-scale survey of […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans, Status Report
Report of the Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST
This STScI Working Group (WG) was charged with soliciting community feedback and evaluating the strategic planning for exoplanet science with JWST and HST given the high quality of exoplanet observations, […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astronomy & Telescopes, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Press Release, Stellar Cartography
Three-year Study Of Young Stars With Hubble Enters A New Chapter
On the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
Hubble Observes The Atmosphere Of Exoplanet WASP-121 b Changing Over 3 Years
The Jupiter-sized planet WASP-121 b is no place to call home. For starters, it orbits very close to a star that is brighter and hotter than the Sun. The planet […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
TrExoLiSTS: Transiting Exoplanets List of Space Telescope Spectroscopy
We present the STScI WFC3 project webpage, Transiting Exoplanets List of Space Telescope Spectroscopy, TrExoLiSTS. It tabulates existing observations of transiting exoplanet atmospheres, available in the MAST archive made with […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Press Release
Young Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs May Lack Ingredients for Life
Rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be bone dry and lifeless, according to a new study using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Water and organic compounds, essential for life as […]
Posted inPress Release, SETI & Technosignatures
Breakthrough Listen Begins Survey of the Plane of the Milky Way at Parkes
Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – announced today that a survey of millions of stars located in the plane of our […]
Posted inHabitable Zones, Press Release, TRAPPIST-1
Mini-Flares Potentially Jeopardize Habitability of Planets Circling Red Dwarf Stars
Cool dwarf stars are hot targets for exoplanet hunting right now. The discoveries of planets in the habitable zones of the TRAPPIST-1 and LHS 1140 systems, for example, suggest that […]