Exploring Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Sep 17, 2025 · Exoplanet Exploration at JPL JPL is at the forefront of a burgeoning and fascinating endeavor — developing technologies to hunt for exoplanets, which are planets beyond our solar …
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
Robotic Space Exploration - www.jpl.nasa.gov The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a …
'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 most Earth-like …
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 been blocked by …
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. This is …
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; however its …
NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin
Aug 7, 2025 · If confirmed by additional observations, the team’s results could transform the future of exoplanet science. “This would become a touchstone object for exoplanet science, with multiple …
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 system.
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
Nov 15, 2023 · NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking Nov. 15, 2023 This artist’s concept shows what the sub-Neptune exoplanet TOI-421 b might look like. In a new …
NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test
Jan 31, 2024 · 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.