Missions | exoplanet diversity

Kepler

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...

CoRoT

by Tanja Schumann | Aug 1, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions

by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), Juli 2024 Prehistory One of the most successful methods for finding extrasolar planets is the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its star, it shadows it a little during this time. For an observer, the star is dimmed by a...

ARIEL Space Mission

by Tanja Schumann | Jul 31, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions

ARIEL: Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 ARIEL is an ESA space mission scheduled for launch in 2029. It is intended to determine the chemical composition and temperature profile in the atmospheres...

CHEOPS

by Tanja Schumann | Jul 31, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions

CHEOPS: CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 CHEOPS is an ESA space mission that has been travelling since the end of 2019. Using a small optical telescope with an aperture of 32 cm on board the satellite, it measures individual...

PLATO

by Tanja Schumann | Apr 23, 2024 | All about exoplanets, Missions

PLATO: PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024, revised March 2025 Mission idea To date, we have not found an Earth-like exoplanet in the life-friendly, habitable zone around a solar-like star, even though there were...