Tootfinder

Won’t happen in my lifetime, but if the human race survives the next decade or so some of you young whippersnappers could be seeing this.
#science #spaceScience #exoPlanets

Could a unique rectangular telescope be the key to finding Earth 2.0?
"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years."

The CARMENES search for #exoplanets around M dwarfs - occurrence rates of Earth-like planets around very low-mass stars: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/04/aa53381-24/aa53381-24.html -> Earth-like Planets Especially Common Around Low-mass Stars: https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/carmenes-data-earth-like-planets-especially-common-around-low-mass-stars

VLT/CRIRES observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b - molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy #exoplanets: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/nplinnspace.bsky.social/post/3lxetkn4tic2b

Evolution of Steam Worlds - Energetic Aspects: #exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may indicate where life exists elsewhere in the universe.

Hundreds of TESS Exoplanets Might Be Larger than We Thought: #exoplanets may be larger than realized: https://news.uci.edu/2025/07/14/uc-irvine-astronomers-discover-scores-of-exoplanets-may-be-larger-than-realized/