NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface

This artist’s illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet’s surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no apparent atmosphere, according to observations by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) A new… Read more“NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface”