{"id":211490,"date":"2025-04-15T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-decipher-mysterious-atmosphere-of-rosetta-stone-exoplanet"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:05:56","slug":"scientists-decipher-mysterious-atmosphere-of-rosetta-stone-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-decipher-mysterious-atmosphere-of-rosetta-stone-exoplanet","title":{"rendered":"Scientists decipher mysterious atmosphere of \u2018Rosetta Stone\u2019 exoplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-decipher-mysterious-atmosphere-of-rosetta-stone-exoplanet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a \u201cRosetta Stone\u201d for understanding an entire class of new planets.<\/p>\n<p>Exoplanets orbit stars outside of our solar system. Sub-Neptunes refer to planets between the size of our solar system\u2019s largest rocky planet, Earth, and the smallest gas giant, Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nature of sub-Neptunes is one of the hottest topics in exoplanetary science,\u201d said SwRI\u2019s Dr. Christopher Glein, first author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.09752\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> accepted for publication in the <i>Astrophysical Journal<\/i> and available on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is only 73 light years from Earth and could serve as a \u201cRosetta Stone\u201d for understanding an entire [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}