New ESA mission to explore the "atmospheres of hundreds of planets"

Humans may not have put boots down on another planet yet, but we've discovered thousands of exoplanets out there in the cosmos — and the European Space Agency (ESA)'s next science mission could give us new insight into some of those celestial bodies. They just selected the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) mission from three candidates to launch what Nature described as the "world's first space telescope dedicated to studying the atmospheres of exoplanets." ...

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