Hubble
This page is currently a work in progress. The Hubble space telescope is a space mission that launched in 1990 and has been a valuable addition to all fields of astronomy, among them exoplanet research. To learn more, visit the Hubble webpage at NASA or the Hubble...
TESS
This page is currently a work in progress. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TESS is a NASA space telescope for discovering exoplanets via the transit method. To learn more, visit the TESS page at NASA, TESS project page at MIT or NASA’s TESS Science...
James Webb Space Telescope
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), March 2025 Overview The James Webb Space Telescope JWST, often simply called Webb, is a powerful infrared telescope. As the name suggests, Webb operates in space, where it is not exposed to the disruptive influences of the Earth’s...
Kepler
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 Kepler is a NASA mission named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Like the previous and future space missions in search of exoplanets – CoRoT, TESS, CHEOPS and PLATO – Kepler uses the transit...