planets outside the solar system

Every ten years since the XNUMXs, astronomers and astrophysicists in the U.S. have gathered to compile a list of priorities for means and instruments. These surveys require scientists to think about priorities

Given the hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way alone, "it's inevitable that we'll find some form of life somewhere"

NASA's Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Astronautic, and JPL have announced Project Tolliman, a project to find out whether the nearest stars have planets that could support life

Using the Gemini South telescope, with an instrument called IGRINS, the team observed the planet's thermal glow as it orbited its host star. From this instrument they gathered information about the presence and relative amounts of various gases in its atmosphere

An international team of astronomers has become the first research team to identify carbon isotopes in the atmosphere of a gas giant

The research focuses on a relatively new topic - the programming of biological life in planets orbiting red dwarfs * To verify the hypothesis, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Israeli Ultrasat Space Telescope when they are launched, will be directed to the planets discovered by Vandel and his colleagues

"If rocky planets exist around white dwarfs, we should be able to detect signs of life on them in the coming years," said co-author Lisa Keltenger, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Carl Sagan Institute.