Kepler-22b, 600 light-years away ... Proxima Centauri b, Earth's closest exoplanet at over 4 light-years, orbits in its star's habitable zone, warranting future research exploration.

The Penn State team trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler spacecraft—as part of its extended K2 mission—to host one of these evaporating planets, K2-22b.

The second paper is "A Disintegrating Rocky World Shrouded in Dust and Gas: Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST." The lead author is Nick Tusay, a PhD student at Penn State working in the Center ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST.” The lead author is Nick Tusay, a PhD student at Penn State working in the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. This paper is hereafter referred ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

In the case of Kepler, the team did. The mirror was moved by a mere 40 micrometres and the images sharpened. And so, the mission got to work. Whereas it was a long wait to detect an exoplanet with ...