Exoplanets - NASA Science
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve confirmed more than 5,600 exoplanets out of the billions that we believe exist.
The nearest potentially habitable planet to Earth – Exoplanet ...
Dec 16, 2015 · UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light-years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.
Background Information | What is Exoplanet Watch? – Exoplanet ...
We call the planets outside of our solar system extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. In the mid-1990’s, scientists started finding ways to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars. Since then, over 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, and the list …
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - Exoplanet Exploration
Mar 22, 2021 · The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars in the sky. In its prime mission, a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS monitored the brightness of stars for periodic drops caused by planet transits. The prime mission ended on July 4, 2020 and ...
5 Ways to Find a Planet - Exoplanet Exploration
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets ...
Jan 11, 2023 · Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
Historic Timeline | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond …
Relying on data from the Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers announce the creation of the first cloud map of a planet outside our solar system—a scorching world 50 percent larger than Jupiter called Kepler-7b.
Historic Timeline | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond …
The ancients debated the existence of planets beyond our own; now we know of thousands. A timeline of discovery: NASA's early work searching for planets beyond our solar system through notable exoplanet discoveries.
Seeing, Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images
Dec 12, 2023 · Take a trip outside our solar system and see the creative posters for the real planets we've discovered. Worlds like 55 Cancri e, where skies sparkle above a never-ending ocean of lava.
Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail
Jul 12, 2022 · Webb captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.