NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and

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NASA’s Pandora Mission One Step Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres - NASA Science

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the mission to carry out its work. “This is a huge milestone for us and keeps us on track for a launch in the fall,” said […]

Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet - NASA Science

The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection. Key Facts The […]

Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’ - NASA Science

The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key facts The possible detection of a […]

NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus - NASA Science

Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away. Multiple factors make it a candidate well-suited for further study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. TESS stares at a large swath […]

Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images - NASA Science

Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b. What's next?

Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images - NASA Science

Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b. What's next?

Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List - NASA

A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more

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Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights - NASA

Roman’s long-term sky monitoring, which will enable these results, represents a boon to what scientists call time-domain astronomy, which studies how the

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