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Artist’s rendering of the Earth-sized habitable zone planet Kepler-186f
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Exoplanet Strategy Promotes Big Missions, Individual Science

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 21 December 201826 January 2022

Collaborative and interdisciplinary research will be key to realizing the missions’ full potential, according to the exoplanet strategy report.

Artist’s rendering of exomoon candidate Kepler-1625b-i and its planet
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Large Exomoon Likely Orbits a Faraway World

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 3 October 201825 October 2018

This Neptune-sized object would be the first moon discovered to orbit a planet outside the solar system, provided that additional observations continue to support the claim.

Artist’s rendering of TESS observing a red dwarf star with orbiting planets.
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New Exoplanet Telescope Detects Its First Two Planets

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 September 2018

The two possible planets, each larger than Earth and too hot to be habitable, are the first of hundreds of Earth-sized exoplanets expected to be discovered by a recently launched telescope.

Full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope
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How Well Can the Webb Telescope Detect Signs of Exoplanet Life?

by L. Joel 24 September 20189 November 2021

Recent research suggests that NASA’s next-generation space telescope will be good—but not the best—at finding life-sustaining levels of oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.

Artist’s rendering of disintegrating planet Kepler-1520b.
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Webb Telescope May Detect Minerals from Shredded Worlds

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 September 20189 November 2021

The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope should be able to measure the composition of vaporizing exoplanets, giving clues about the makeup of their cores, mantles, and crusts.

A wide variety of Kepler exoplanets
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The Kepler Revolution

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 August 2018

The Kepler Space Telescope will soon run out of fuel and end its mission. Here are nine fundamental discoveries about planets aided by Kepler in the 9 years since its launch.

The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system as it might look like from a vantage point near the planet TRAPPIST-1f (at right)
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AGU and AAS Join Forces to Foster Understanding of Exoplanets

by J. Speiser 13 July 2018

Enhanced cooperation between organizations representing astronomers and Earth and space scientists will build upon interdisplinary work already bridging geophysics and astronomy.

Artist’s conception of TESS, with a hypothetical lava planet and its host star in the background.
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Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Launches

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 19 April 2018

Scanning for traces of faraway worlds, TESS will make observations over an area hundreds of times larger than that observed by its predecessor, the Kepler Space Telescope.

Artist's conception of the K2-138 exoplanet system
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Looking to the Future of Exoplanet Science

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 January 201824 January 2018

Upcoming missions seeking to unravel the secrets of exoplanets abound. An informal survey of astronomers revealed which of those projects they most eagerly await.

An artist’s rendering of a Neptune-sized exoplanet.
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Ten Earth-Sized Planets Found by Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope

by JoAnna Wendel 22 June 2017

A new analysis of exoplanet candidates also reveals a previously unrecognized tendency for smaller exoplanets to grow into two distinct sizes.

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