With the discovery of planets beyond our solar system 25 years ago, exoplanet research has expanded dramatically, with new state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based missions dedicated to their ...

To detect exoplanets that orbit further out, an upcoming NASA mission, the Roman Space Telescope, will use gravitational microlensing, in which a nearby star will bend and focus light from a ...

As newer exoplanets amenable to exoplanet characterization are discovered with missions such as TESS and PLATO, we will use our expertise with HST data analysis to develop and apply novel observing ...

But the US space agency-led mission will probably only get to look at perhaps 150-200 exoplanets in its first five years of operation because of all the other demands on its time from astronomers.

The researchers behind this study never doubted that life exists on Earth to begin with. Rather, the study was an attempt to prove that their method for determining such works and that the planned ...

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

We are developing new techniques, models and theories to understand the conditions for habitability and for remote sensing of biosignatures. We design and operate exoplanet space missions and exploit ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Ariel plans to observe up to a 1,000 exoplanets during its main mission phase. It will do this by watching these worlds as they move in front and behind their host stars. Information about the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of a mission that will study the atmosphere composition of over 1000 exoplanets. The design assessment for Ariel ...