Lewis, who is retiring from Keck at the end of the month after 37 years, the last nine of which he served as observatory ...

A recent study published in Nature examines the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet, LP 791-18 d, located 86 light-years away that is likely riddled | Space ...

The planet, named LP 791-18 d, was located and observed using data from NASA’s Tess satellite and the Spitzer Space Telescope ...

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Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant ...

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Would that mean it's bad for life?'" Kane elaborated by saying if an exoplanet doesn't have volcanoes that means it's not ...

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a research scientist at NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “In ...