{"id":3928193,"date":"2026-09-29T19:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alien-life-why-the-possibility-of-exoplanet-lhs-1140b-emitting-helium-gas-is-so-exciting\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:02:45","slug":"alien-life-why-the-possibility-of-exoplanet-lhs-1140b-emitting-helium-gas-is-so-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alien-life-why-the-possibility-of-exoplanet-lhs-1140b-emitting-helium-gas-is-so-exciting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien life? Why the possibility of exoplanet LHS 1140b emitting helium gas is so exciting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This summer, exoplanet science\u2014the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun\u2014took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from the pages of scientific journals into the mainstream media.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-alien-life-possibility-exoplanet-lhs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, exoplanet science\u2014the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun\u2014took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from the pages of scientific journals into the mainstream media. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}