Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

A Farnsworth, YTE Lo, PJ Valdes, JR Buzan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammals have dominated Earth for approximately 55 Myr thanks to their adaptations and
resilience to warming and cooling during the Cenozoic. All life will eventually perish in a …

New mass and radius constraints on the LHS 1140 planets: LHS 1140 b is either a temperate mini-Neptune or a water world

C Cadieux, M Plotnykov, R Doyon… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The two-planet transiting system LHS 1140 has been extensively observed since its
discovery in 2017, notably with Spitzer, HST, TESS, and ESPRESSO, placing strong …

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology

AL Shields - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun has accelerated over the past
decade, and this trend will continue as new space-and ground-based observatories employ …

Seeding the Solar System with Life: Mars, Venus, Earth, Moon, Protoplanets

RG Joseph, O Planchon, CH Gibson, R Schild - Open Astronomy, 2020 - degruyter.com
In the space of the entire universe, the only conclusive evidence of life, is found on Earth.
Although the ultimate source of all life is unknown, many investigators believe Earth, Mars …

The TRAPPIST-1 habitable atmosphere intercomparison (THAI). II. Moist cases—The two waterworlds

DE Sergeev, TJ Fauchez, M Turbet… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To identify promising exoplanets for atmospheric characterization and to make the best use
of observational data, a thorough understanding of their atmospheres is needed. Three …

Atmospheric regimes and trends on exoplanets and brown dwarfs

X Zhang - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Assessing the habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 system using a 3D climate model

ET Wolf - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The TRAPPIST-1 system provides an extraordinary opportunity to study multiple terrestrial
extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. Here, we use the National Center for Atmospheric …

Habitability of exoplanet waterworlds

ES Kite, EB Ford - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Many habitable zone (HZ) exoplanets are expected to form with water mass fractions higher
than that of the Earth. For rocky exoplanets with 10–1000× Earth's H 2 O but without H 2, we …

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). I. Dry Cases—The Fellowship of the GCMs

M Turbet, TJ Fauchez, DE Sergeev… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
With the commissioning of powerful, new-generation telescopes such as the James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) and the ground-based Extremely Large Telescopes, the first …

Habitable climate scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a dynamic ocean

AD Del Genio, MJ Way, DS Amundsen, I Aleinov… - Astrobiology, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Abstract The nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b will be a prime future target for
characterization, despite questions about its retention of water. Climate models with static …