The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

Using forward models for representative exoplanet atmospheres and a radiometric instrument model, we generated synthetic observational data to explore how well the major C- and O-bearing chemical ...

Beyond our limits Hopes of finding evidence of life on far off alien worlds by studying their atmospheric chemistry have been dashed by a new study that concludes it's almost impossible. The ...

HST hot Jupiter transmission spectral survey: evidence for aerosols and lack of TiO in the atmosphere of WASP-12b By SpaceRef Editor September 24, 2013 ...

First spectral analysis of a super-Earth’s atmosphere shows it’s not super for life. by Alan Boyle on February 16, 2016 at 5:20 pm February 16, 2016 at 5:20 pm.

Pigment absorbance features are strongly correlated with features of atmospheric spectral transmittance: P680 in Photosystem II with the peak surface incident photon flux density at 685 nm, ...