Seeing, Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images
Dec 12, 2023 · If we find an “Earth-like” planet, we won’t see continents and oceans – at least not yet. But that tiny dot of light will contain a flood of information: details of the planet’s …
NASA's Kepler mission announces largest batch of planet …
May 9, 2016 · In the newly-validated batch of planets, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth, based on their size. Nine of these orbit in their sun's habitable zone, which is the …
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ... - Exoplanet …
Feb 15, 2018 · NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), shown here in a conceptual illustration, will identify exoplanets orbiting the brightest stars just outside our solar system.
Promising worlds found around nearby ultra-cool dwarf star
May 1, 2016 · Astronomers have discovered three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.
Discovery Alert: On Our Galaxy's Outskirts, a Poverty of Planets
Aug 22, 2023 · Do systems of planets in one region of the Milky Way look different than they do in another? Or is there no discernable pattern among this sprawling, spiraling assembly of stars?
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Unexpected excess of giant planets in star cluster
Jun 21, 2016 · Astronomers have found far more such planets in the cluster than expected. This surprise result was obtained using a number of telescopes and instruments, among them the …
NASA's K2 finds newborn exoplanet around young star
Jun 19, 2016 · Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars beyond our sun. The newfound planet, K2-33b, is a bit larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. It is only 5 to …
Starshade animation - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our …
What do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, look like? A variety of possibilities are shown in this illustration. The more than 5,000 exoplanets confirmed in our galaxy so far …
NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Jan 22, 2020 · From stars being born to planets beyond our solar system (like the seven Earth-size planets around the star TRAPPIST-1), Spitzer's science discoveries will continue to …