Video of the LBTI instrument's view of the sky.

On March 21, 2022, the number of known exoplanets passed 5,000 according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive. This animation and sonification tracks humanity's discovery of the planets beyond our solar s...

This sculpture by Angela Palmer is created from the data gathered to date by the Kepler telescope. It literally reproduces in three dimensions the chunk of sky the Kepler telescope has been trained...

This is the animated storybook tale of the Spitzer spacecraft and its exploits as part of the space telescope superteam known as NASA’s Great Observatories, which also includes Hubble, Chandra and ...

Kepler does not orbit the Earth, rather it orbits the Sun in concert with the Earth, slowly drifting away from Earth. Every 61 Earth years, Kepler and Earth will pass by each other.

HD 80606b is a gas giant planet in an eccentric orbit around its star. Every 111 days, the planet passes within 2.8 million miles of the star's surface. Animated without dissolves.

The Kepler spacecraft, responsible for thousands of new potential disoveries.

This artists impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. This is the closest such object to the Solar System.

This episode of "Hubble at 25" uncovers Hubble's Key role in the study of planets beyond our solar system.

This artist's concept shows a Jupiter-like planet, called Upsilon Andromedae b, soaking up the scorching rays of its nearby star. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope determined that this planet is two-f...

How do we explore worlds beyond our own? (Downloadable fact sheet)

Audience: 3rd grade and older This slide introduces four major space telescopes that are contributing to our study of exoplanets: Hubble, Kepler/K2, Tess, and James Webb.

Kepler arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.

This slide breaks down and explains what black holes are.

Animation of HAT-P-7 light curve with magnified y-axis to better show the occultation dip in brightness. When the planet passes behind the star, light that is reflecting off the planet from the sta...

This image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, next to its parent star.

This slide explains the radial velocity method for exoplanet detection. 

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one.

Watch the PlanetQuest interactive timeline in video format!

This artist's concept shows what the weather might look like on cool star-like bodies known as brown dwarfs. These giant balls of gas start life like stars, but lack the mass to sustain nuclear fus...

This slide explains the transit method for exoplanet detection.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have taken the first ever image of the snow line in an infant planetary system.

Audience: 3rd grade and older This slide shows the difference in temperature between planets orbiting an M Dwarf star and our Sun. The second view shows their relative distance from their star.

This artists concept contrasts our familiar Earth with the exceptionally strange planet known as 55 Cancri e.

A series of images of a distant gas giant reveal its orbit around its star Beta Pictoris, located some 60 light-years from Earth.