Exploring Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Sep 17, 2025 · Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer current Kepler Exoplanet Mission past Spitzer Space Telescope past Exoplanet Exploration at JPL JPL is at the forefront of a burgeoning and …
Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets
Mar 21, 2022 · The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
'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 Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World
This image shows the exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope. The images at bottom look different because of the ways the different Webb …
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
Jul 23, 2015 · These findings are derived from data publicly available on the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Scientists now are producing the last catalog based on the original Kepler mission's four-year data …