The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

Sun glint obscures the radiance originating from within the water, but it also mirrors the solar radiance after transmission through the atmosphere. The difference between a glint-contaminated pixel ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got a clear view of a sub-Neptune exoplanet's atmosphere, offering insight into a common-yet-mysterious world.

A recent study introduces the Spectrum Transformer (SpT) model, a novel AI-driven approach for retrieving atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations from satellite-measured spectra.

For planets of average density, those optical depths correspond to roughly the same physical depths, so transmission spectra map an atmosphere in one or two dimensions.

It's hard to isolate the light of the planet in order to analyze its atmosphere." With the spectra, the researchers obtained information about carbon monoxide and water from PDS 70b.

Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet’s atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.

The JWST has successfully gathered some atmospheric spectra from exoplanet atmospheres, but it has a lot of other jobs to do and observing time is in high demand.

Information theory can help us decode signs of biological activity hiding in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets ...

In this article, LightMachinery details how spectroscopy can be used to identify the biosignature of an exoplanet, drastically advancing research in the field.