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Bookmark or Share- Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Exoplanet Exploration at JPL JPL is at the forefront of a burgeoning and fascinating endeavor — developing technologies to hunt for exoplanets, which are planets beyond our solar system. Breakthroughs in the 1990s by the world science community confirmed that our Sun, the star at the center of our solar system, is not the only star that has ...
- NASA’s TESS Discovers Planetary System’s Second Earth-Size WorldUsing data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface. The world is 95% Earth’s size and likely rocky.
- Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas GiantResearchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300 light-years from Earth. The detection, which was uniquely possible with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), marks the first time that silica (SiO2) particles have been ...
- NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years AwayEpsilon Indi Ab is the 12th closest exoplanet to Earth known to date and the closest planet more massive than Jupiter. The science team chose to study Eps Ind A because the system showed hints of a possible planetary body using a technique called radial velocity , which measures the back-and-forth wobbles of the host star along our line of sight.
- The Art of Exoplanets | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)"For the public, the value of this is not just giving them a picture of something somebody made up," said Douglas Hudgins, a program scientist for the Exoplanet Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These are real, educated guesses of how something might look to human beings. An image is worth a thousand words."
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