Over the course of two years, our newest planet-hunter @NASA_TESS will scan 85% of the sky to find planets outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets. Watch & learn more about this mission ...

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

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 ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

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 ...

But however you look at it, our confirmation of exoplanets traces to the 1990s. Astronomers have been busy since then. Missions like NASA’s Kepler space telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet ...

and trains them to use the very same techniques that scientists use every day in the hunt for exoplanets. Here’s a quick preview: To start, players watch a brief mission intro video that sets ...

Throughout the mission, all relevant data will be logged in the player’s Star Dex. If they’re looking to get an up-close view of a particular exoplanet, players can open the Star-View to ...

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.

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 ...