A search for rocky planets transiting brown dwarfs

Understand

Exoplanetary science has reached a historic moment.

• The James Webb Space Telescope will be capable of probing the atmospheres of rocky planets, and perhaps even search for biologically produced gases.
• However this is contingent on identifying suitable targets before the end of the mission.
• A race therefore, is on, to find transiting planets with the most favorable properties, in time for the launch.