Exploring Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Sep 17, 2025 · Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer current Kepler Exoplanet Mission past Spitzer Space Telescope past Exoplanet Exploration at JPL JPL is at the forefront of a …
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
Robotic Space Exploration - www.jpl.nasa.govThe official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are …
NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away
Jul 24, 2024 · The gas-giant exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab imaged using the MIRI instrument on NASA’s Webb telescope. A star symbol marks the location of the host star, whose light has …
'Exoplanets' and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Oct 11, 2024 · 'Exoplanets' and the Search for Habitable Worlds In the News Twenty years after the first discovery of a planet orbiting another sun-like star, scientists have discovered the …
Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx)
Nov 4, 2021 · The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) is a concept for a mission to directly image planetary systems around Sun-like stars. HabEx will be sensitive to all types of planets; …
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky …
May 8, 2024 · Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. …
Possible Volcanic Moon Detected 635 Light-Years Away
Oct 10, 2024 · A new NASA-led study suggests that a potential exomoon may be orbiting the exoplanet WASP-49 b, a gas giant located 635 light-years from Earth. The possible exomoon …
Kepler - Universe Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mar 6, 2009 · Kepler Exoplanet Mission Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar …
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
Nov 15, 2023 · Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a possible …
NASA’s TESS Discovers Planetary System’s Second Earth-Size World
Jan 10, 2023 · Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – …