Impact history of early Earth created conditions conducive to life
SwRI Institute Scientist Dr Simone Marchi created this artistic rendering of early Earth, which shows a surface pummelled by large impacts, creating hydrothermal conditions that could support the evolution of life. Each individual impact during this phase of...
Astronomers ‘de-fog’ exoplanet atmospheres
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds...
Atmosphere of temperate exoplanet contains methane
Artist’s impression of a gas giant planet orbiting its distant host star. New research, led by astronomers at Penn State and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to analyse the atmosphere of a gas giant planet about the size of...