{"id":241917,"date":"2026-07-31T04:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nearby-rocky-may-be-replenishing-helium-from-atmosphere-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:02:38","slug":"nearby-rocky-may-be-replenishing-helium-from-atmosphere-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nearby-rocky-may-be-replenishing-helium-from-atmosphere-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Nearby rocky may be replenishing helium from atmosphere, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearby-rocky-may-be-replenishing-helium-from-atmosphere-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade after the discovery of LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a nearby low-mass star, a new study reveals that the object may have its own atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>University of Florida Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann first discovered the planet in 2016. Now, he is a co-author of the new study, published in Science, that uses helium escape to explain a potential atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exciting part about this paper, and why I think it was accepted into Science, was that this is the first time that we\u2019re seeing a rocky, Earth-like planet that could still have an atmosphere,\u201d Dittmann said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a decade after the discovery of LHS 1140b, a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a nearby low-mass star, a new study reveals that the object may have its own atmosphere. University of Florida Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann first discovered the planet in 2016. Now, he is a co-author of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241917","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}