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An artist’s concept of rocky planets LHS 1140b and LHS 1140c. Image credit: Melissa Weiss / Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics.

Potential Atmosphere Detected on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140b

Jul 16, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using spectral data from the Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, astronomers detected helium escaping from LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet...