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; …
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 …
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. …
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 Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test
A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.
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 …