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Exoplanets: Links

Telescope

The European Space Agency - ESA - has a wonderful site about finding exoplanets and perhaps life on other planets.

NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site is an awesome source of information! Explore this site's videos, galleries, and fascinating facts, and check out these pages:

How do scientists search for "Goldilocks" planets that have conditions that are "just right" for life to exist? Learn about NASA's search for habitable planets and extra-terrestial life.

Hubble

NASA has images displaying the relative sizes of the exoplanets that they have found.

The Kepler Mission is one of many designed to hunt down and locate exoplanets.

NESSI was an instrument used for the first time in 2014 for studying exoplanet atmospheres. Maybe it will find one out there with an atmosphere like Earth's.

From NASA's Space Place site for kids, learn more about exoplanets and how scientists search for them.

Space

Find out more about TESS — the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

Learn more about extrasolar planets on The Planetary Society's site.

The Planetary Society has a great site for kids to explore other space-related topics too.

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