Experts at GISS are turning their sights away from our home planet once again as part of the Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), and will provide key insights into the atmospheres and climates of planets that orbit distant stars.
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies is providing expertise to the Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science in the area of exoplanet atmospheres and climate.
The Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science, or «NExSS», hopes to better understand the various components of an exoplanet, as well as how the planet stars and neighbor planets interact to support life...
After almost two years in planning and preparation, our Project EOS has finally began: an exciting meeting at NASA HQ has launched NASA's new Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science program (which is funding EOS), we published the first paper with EOS results and investigators, the first postdoctoral researchers and a program coordinator are joining our project in May, our website is also online, and we began preparations for transforming a group of offices at the Steward Observatory of The University of Arizona into the EOS «Headquarters».
This work was supported by funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute and NASA Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science.
NASA's new Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science program offers an ambitious, novel approach to study and understand habitable exoplanetary systems.
The biggest example of that effort was the establishment of a program called NExSS, or the Nexus for
Exoplanet System Science.
The Nexus for
Exoplanet Systems Science (NExSS) is a new inter-divisional initiative managed by the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD).
Not exact matches
Learn about the formation and origin of the Solar
System and go beyond our neighborhood to investigate
exoplanets (planets around other stars) in this video of class 11 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary
Science and Astronomy class.
«If you don't turn off the star, you are blinded and can't see dust or planets,» said co-author Rafael Millan - Gabet of NASA's
exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, who led the Keck Interferometer's science operations
Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, who led the Keck Interferometer's
science operations
science operations
system.
will focus on the newly emergent, but already mature,
science of planetary research and aim to bring together solar
system and
exoplanet researchers for a truly synergistic view of how planetary
systems form and evolve.
The Rencontres du Vietnam initiated in 2014 a cycle of yearly conferences on planetary
science, alternatively focusing on
exoplanets, Solar
system, or exobiology.
The scope of COSPAR comprises space studies of the Earth's surface, meteorology and climate; space studies of the Earth - Moon
system and other bodies of the solar
system, including the search for evidence of life in the solar
system; study of planetary atmospheres including those of the ever - expanding inventory of
exoplanets; space plasmas in the solar
system; research in astrophysics from space; life
sciences as related to space; materials
sciences in space; and fundamental physics in space.