2025年2月18日 · Learn more about every confirmed exoplanet — 5,800 and counting — in this continuously updated resource. View interactive 3D models, read descriptions and vital statistics, and filter by exoplanet type, or by the method used to discover it, or the spacecraft, observatory, or other facility that found it.

A timeline of discovery: NASA's early work searching for planets beyond our solar system through notable exoplanet discoveries.

Age of Discovery: 5,000 exoplanets! The count of confirmed exoplanets ticks past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small number of known planets, all of them orbiting our Sun.

2023年1月11日 · 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.

2016年11月18日 · The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) science and missions represent an undertaking of unprecedented scope and ambition, promising insight into humankind's most timeless questions: What kinds of planetary systems orbit other stars in …

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.

Discover new exoplanets — using transit timing variations to infer the existence of an additional exoplanet in a extrasolar system; Monitor stellar variability — changes in a star's brightness caused by spots (dark regions) and plages (bright regions) of an …

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.

2021年3月22日 · 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.

2024年10月30日 · ExEP serves the science community and NASA by acting a as focal point for exoplanet science and technology, and by the integration of cohesive strategies for future discoveries. The Program in depth explains the motivations and …