Exoplanets
A selection of artist's concept images of other worlds — those beyond our solar system — just a portion of the nearly 6,000 exoplanets confirmed so far.
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA Kepler Space Telescope. It...
This image shows an artist’s impression of the ten hot Jupiter exoplanets. From top left to to lower left these...
This artist's illustration shows a gas giant planet circling a pair of red dwarf stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located...
A comparison of Earth and Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet only 1.06 times Earth's radius. Labeled Art Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter
Astronomers using data from NASA Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently discovered the three smallest exoplanets known to circle another...
This artist's rendering shows a giant exoplanet causing small bodies to collide in a disk of dust. A study in...
This illustration shows three possible interiors of the seven rocky exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, based on precision measurements of...
This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Red dwarfs tend to be magnetically active, displaying...
WASP-18b is an exoplanet located 325 light-years from Earth. The planet's mass is 10 times that of Jupiter, and it...
Release Date April 1, 2009 This is an artistic illustration of the giant planet HR 8799b. The planet was first...
This still from a video shows illustrations of the seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1, an exoplanet system about 40 light-years...
This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. This exoplanet is in its star's habitable...
Caption: Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter's mass, making...
“We like to say that Archean Earth is the most alien planet we have geochemical data for,” For astronomers trying...
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first...
The super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist's concept, likely has an atmosphere thicker than...
