But two Cornell University astronomers have advanced the cause with new computer models designed to help tease out signs of life from an extrasolar planet’s given color and surface reflectivity.

Atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets has thus far been limited to ground-based observations of young, self-luminous, Jovian planets. Near-term space- and ground- based ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have partly solved that riddle by pinpointing the visible color of an extrasolar world ... its blue tint comes from an atmosphere likely full of deadly ...

"This opens up an exciting new phase of extrasolar planet exploration ... star's light passed through the planet's atmosphere on its way to Earth. When the color of the light was analyzed by ...

First color in a planet's portrait The planet ... using the Hubble spectrograph to identify elements in an extrasolar planetary atmosphere. In the current Hubble experiment, the astronomers ...

"This opens up an exciting new phase of extrasolar planet exploration ... on its way to Earth passed though the planet's atmosphere. When the color of the light was analyzed by STIS, the telltale ...

Today researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute announced in a press release they have detected small amounts of sodium in the atmosphere of a planet surrounding the Sun-like star HD ...

Just more than a decade after discovering an extrasolar planet about ... the wind speed in the planet’s atmosphere—they were able to detect related color shifts as the hot Jupiter passed ...

Last July astronomers confirmed the presence of water vapor on an extrasolar planet by observing the passage of starlight through the planet’s atmosphere. The world’s space agencies are now ...

Two new studies detailed in the March issue of the journal Astrobiology find that the color of a ... Study Suggests Water Found in Extrasolar Planet's Atmosphere The Strangest Things in Space ...

Using a combination of previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, Barman found strong evidence for water absorption in the atmosphere of the extrasolar ...