Exploring Alien Atmospheres with New Theory

Exploring Alien Atmospheres with New Theory
By Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://ift.tt/gHRhnPk)

Searching for life beyond Earth has rapidly advanced in recent years. However, directly imaging an exoplanet and all their incredible features remain elusive given the literal astronomical distances from Earth. Therefore, astronomers have settled by exploring exoplanet atmospheres for signatures of life, also called biosignatures. This is currently conducted by analyzing the starlight that passes through an exoplanet’s atmosphere, known as spectroscopy, as it passes in front of its star, also called a transit. But improvements continue to be made to better explore exoplanet atmospheres, specifically cleaning up messy data.

February 23, 2026 at 09:18AM
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