A study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the presence of microorganisms capable of producing it. This delay in our planet's ...
A detailed study of an exoplanet reveals that it may have a primitive atmosphere composed mainly of helium and hydrogen. A new study shows the most detailed analysis of an exoplanet that's very close ...
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