by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 4, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
This article is a work in progress. The Large Interferometer for Exoplanets LIFE is a possible future space telescope operating in the infrared wavelength range. It is designed to directly image extrasolar planets and investigate their potential habitability. It uses...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Apr 4, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
This article is still a work in progress. The Habitable Worlds Observatory HWO is a mission concept for a large space telescope capable of observing in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet wavelength ranges. It has been recommended by the National Academies’...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Feb 28, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
This page is currently a work in progress. Gaia is an ESA-led satellite mission that maps billions of stars in our milky way and beyond, which, among many other things, will help find extrasolar planets. To learn more, visit the Gaia mission page at ESA. For more...
by Tanja Schumann | Feb 24, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
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...
by Tanja Schumann | Feb 24, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions, Uncategorized
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...
by Tanja Schumann | Aug 18, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
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...
