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TESS finds three Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting binary stars

TESS finds three Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting binary stars

NASASpaceflight November 9, 2025
Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of… The post TESS finds three Earth-sized e...
Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests

ESA October 9, 2025
By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

NASA September 29, 2025
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming dis...
Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

Webb studies moon-forming disc around massive planet

ESA September 29, 2025
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-for...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

NASA September 29, 2025
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming dis...
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

NASA September 17, 2025
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of e...
NASA Study: Celestial ‘Accident’ Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle

NASA Study: Celestial ‘Accident’ Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle

NASA September 9, 2025
An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn’s atmospheres — and potentially t...
NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

NASA September 8, 2025
Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful analysis of the results so far p...
No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

No Earth-like atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 d

ESA August 13, 2025
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth,...
Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

NASA August 13, 2025
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth,...
CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star

CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star

NASASpaceflight July 20, 2025
Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers has… The post CHEOPS discovers ex...
NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking

NASA’s Chandra Finds Baby Exoplanet is Shrinking

NASA July 16, 2025
A star is unleashing a barrage of X-rays that is causing a closely-orbiting, young planet to wither away an astonishing rate, according to a new s...
NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers

NASA Citizen Science and Your Career: Stories of Exoplanet Watch Volunteers

NASA July 16, 2025
Doing NASA Science brings many rewards. But can taking part in NASA citizen science help your career? To find out, we asked participants in NASA’s E...
Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

ESA July 2, 2025
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star...
A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery

A New Alloy is Enabling Ultra-Stable Structures Needed for Exoplanet Discovery

NASA July 1, 2025
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NAS...
NASA History News and Notes – Summer 2025

NASA History News and Notes – Summer 2025

NASA June 20, 2025
In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History Office’s News & Notes newsletter, examples of leadership and critical decision-making in NASA’s histo...
Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

NASA June 10, 2025
A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Usi...
I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.

SpaceNews May 13, 2025
The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Se...
NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet

NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet

NASA May 5, 2025
Though they don’t orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, that have been obser...
Exoplanets explained by Nobel Prize winner (part 1) | The 5 Ws

Exoplanets explained by Nobel Prize winner (part 1) | The 5 Ws

ESA May 2, 2025
Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz answers the who, what, where, when and why of exoplanets in this 3-part series.