By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth’s hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the ...

Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is only the fourth exo-planet located in the ...

Imaging and characterizing Earth-like planets, or exo-Earths, is a key scientific objective of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), as identified by the NASA 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Earth ...