Exploring Exoplanets - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
2024年10月28日 · Exoplanet Exploration at JPL JPL is at the forefront of a burgeoning and fascinating endeavor — developing technologies to hunt for exoplanets, which are planets …
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky …
2024年5月8日 · “Webb is pushing the frontiers of exoplanet characterization to rocky planets,” Hu said. “It is truly enabling a new type of science.” Super-Hot Super-Earth 55 Cancri e. 55 Cancri …
NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test
2024年1月31日 · But if scientists were trying to obtain images of an Earth-like planet in another solar system (same size, same distance from a star similar to our Sun), they wouldn’t be able …
'Exoplanets' and the Search for Habitable Worlds
2024年10月11日 · Twenty years after the first discovery of a planet orbiting another sun-like star, scientists have discovered the most Earth-like exoplanet ever: Kepler-452b. Located in the …
Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
2023年10月16日 · Researchers 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 …
NASA Telescopes Find Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Exoplanet
2014年9月24日 · Astronomers using data from three of NASA's space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler -- have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a gaseous …
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
2023年11月15日 · “Scientists have now confirmed the detection of over 5,000 exoplanets, but there are fewer planets than expected with a diameter between 1.5 and 2 times that of Earth,” …
Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of Exoplanets
2017年11月1日 · Exoplanet: a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun. White dwarf: a dim, dense, compact star -- the remnant core that remains after intermediate-mass stars (similar to …
Seeing Exoplanets Like Never Before With the Roman …
2024年5月21日 · NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a flagship astrophysics mission, will launch with a very special piece of technology on board that will …
Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets
2022年3月21日 · The archive records exoplanet discoveries that appear in peer-reviewed, scientific papers, and that have been confirmed using multiple detection methods or by …