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Exoplanet Exploration Program

NASA's search for habitable planets and life beyond our solar system

Missions and Instruments

A search for habitable planets.
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Kepler
KEPLER
Partnership for Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
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NN-EXPLORE
NN-EXPLORE
K2 is a NASA mission that provides precise photometric data from numerous target fields in the ecliptic.
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K2
K2
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is a NASA-funded instrument to study exoplanetary systems.
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LBTI
LBTI
The Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope
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WFIRST
WFIRST

Program Newsletter

April 6, 2016

NASA's New Worlds News

Get the latest information on exoplanet science, news, data, and newest features of the Exoplanet Exploration Program.

Program News
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Longtime JPL engineer to help lead hunt for exoplanets
NExScI symposium 2016 talks posted
The NEID instrument, to be completed in 2019.
NASA selects instrument team to build next-gen planet hunter
WFIRST science definition team announcement
Science News
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An illustration of a brown dwarf.
NASA space telescopes pinpoint elusive brown dwarf
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Study: Planet orbiting nearest star could be habitable
An illustration of a star, with a cutout showing its interior.
Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
An artist's illustration shows a gas giant planet circling a pair of red dwarf stars.
Hubble finds planet orbiting pair of stars 8,000 light-years away

NExScI

NExScI (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute) is a science operations and analysis service organization for NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program projects and the scientists and engineers that use them.

Sagan Program

Software & Web Tools

NASA Exoplanet Archive

NExScI

NExScI (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute) is a science operations and analysis service organization for NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program projects and the scientists and engineers that use them.

Sagan Program

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Software & Web Tools

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NASA Exoplanet Archive

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Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters

Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters

Find your dream world. This set of travel posters envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now. You can take a virtual trip to several alien worlds and maybe even plaster your living room with this planetary art, available free for downloading and printing.