Exoplanets - NASA Science
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve confirmed more than 5,600 exoplanets out of the billions that we believe exist.
The nearest potentially habitable planet to Earth – Exoplanet ...
Dec 16, 2015 · UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light-years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.
Historic Timeline | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond …
A timeline of discovery: NASA's early work searching for planets beyond our solar system through notable exoplanet discoveries.
5 Ways to Find a Planet | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets ...
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
Historic Timeline | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond …
NASA’s Kepler mission announces the discovery of its first rocky exoplanet, and the smallest planet found outside the solar system up to that point. Kepler-10b, 1.4 times the size of Earth, has the density of an iron dumbbell, weighs in at 4.6 times the mass of Earth.
Exoplanet Travel Bureau | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets ...
5 Ways to Find a Planet Strange New Worlds Historic Timeline Galaxy of Horrors Scroll to take a trip outside our solar system Even the closest exoplanets are too far away to visit. But... what if they weren't? We worked with NASA scientists, futurists …
Hubble Observes a Mystery: 'Cotton Candy' Planets
Dec 24, 2019 · "Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it's actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the density of cotton candy. Nothing like them exists in our solar system.
Background Information | What is Exoplanet Watch? – Exoplanet ...
We call the planets outside of our solar system extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. In the mid-1990’s, scientists started finding ways to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars. Since then, over 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, and the list …
NASA finds a new dwarf in a family of stars
Apr 18, 2016 · Are they planets that were ejected from solar systems, or are they actually light-weight stars called brown dwarfs that formed alone in space like stars? A new study using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, WISE, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey, or 2MASS, provides new clues in this mystery of galactic proportions.
Largest unnamed world in the solar system – Exoplanet …
May 10, 2016 · New results from NASA's Kepler/K2 mission reveal the largest unnamed body in our solar system and the third largest of the current roster of dwarf planets.