Above: Artist rendering of confirmed exoplanets. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA has officially confirmed 6,000 exoplanets—planets that exist outside of our solar system—marking a major milestone in the search for worlds beyond our own. Tracked by...
A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has been awarded $4 million by NASA to develop a new generation of ultra-sensitive sensors that can directly image distant exoplanets. The technology will support a 6-meter space telescope...
