Astrobiology

This artist’s impression displays TRAPPIST-1 and its planets reflected in a surface. The potential for water on each of the worlds is also represented by the frost, water pools, and

Single-molecule Peptide Sequencing Through Reverse Translation Of Peptides Into DNA – PNAS Editor’s note: with recent speculation about the potential habitability of other worlds and understanding the processes whereby other

Exoplanet 29 Cygni b, seen in this artist’s concept, is a gas giant weighing about 15 times the mass of Jupiter. It orbits a type A star (shown at upper

NCCR PlanetS This chapter reviews the current state of observational and theoretical efforts in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres, with a focus on developments enabled through the Swiss National Centre

Picture of the construction of ELT@ESO (Credit: ESO) High-precision high-fidelity spectrographs are the most powerful instruments for exoplanets detection and characterization. The sub-m/s radial-velocity precision, required to detect Earth-mass exoplanets,

Mass-radius relation (a) and orbital period vs. radius (b) of observed giant exoplanets with masses between 0.1 and 10 M𝐽 . The data is coloured according to the equilibrium temperature.

Examples of events identified by mono-cbp and vetted by the model comparison (Section 2.4). Top left: Sector 6 transit of TOI-1338 b (same as Fig. 1), classified as a transit.

Nano-FTIR measurement of Region 1 (belonging to the aliphatic-rich cluster). Color-coded nano-FTIR spectra (A) of spots shown in the SNOM topography (B), optical amplitude (C), and mechanical amplitude (D)