The paper is also an introduction to the TEMPOS (Temperate M Dwarf Planets With SPECULOOS) survey. SPECULOOS stands for the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars, and its goal is to ...
Researchers have developed a new coronagraph—an optical device that blocks out light from a bright source—that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent ...