Exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system, whether orbiting other stars or floating freely between them, can make the planets closer to home look tame by comparison.

Grab crayons, markers, paint or colored pencils and shade in the hues of rocky terrain, lava oceans and other amazing features of distant worlds beyond our solar system.

¿Qué colores iluminarían los primeros exoplanetas descubiertos?

¿Qué colores te imaginas en el mundo ultracaliente de 55 Cancri e?

¡Colorea este mundo! ¿Te imaginas un planeta rocoso o uno envuelto en gas y hielo?

Si visitaras Kepler-16b, ¿qué colores crees que verías?

¿Qué tonos elegirás para colorear Kepler-186f?

¿Qué matices aparecerían bajo un sol rojo? ¿Qué colores te imaginas en el mundo ultracaliente de 55 Cancri e?  Si visitaras Kepler-16b, ¿qué colores crees que verías? ¿Qué tonos elegirás para colo...

¿Qué matices aparecerían bajo un sol rojo?

What colors would light up the first exoplanets discovered? Add your touch to the coloring page for 51 Pegasi b based on our popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster. 

What colors can you imagine on the ultrahot world of 55 Cancri e? Download the coloring page based on our popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster for the lava world.

What tones will you pick to color Kepler-186f? Grab crayons, markers, paint or colored pencils and color in the coloring page based on our popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster for the planet with...

What hues would appear under a red sun? Grab crayons, markers, paint or colored pencils and color in the hues of our TRAPPIST-1e coloring page based on our popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster.

If you visited Kepler-16b, what colors do you think you’d see? Download the coloring page based on our Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster for the world with two suns.

Add your own creative vision to the coloring page based on our popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster for HD 40307 g. Do you picture a rocky planet or one shrouded in gas and ice? 

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 ...

Spitzer Mission Manager Joseph Hunt stands in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 30, 2020, declaring the spacecraft decommissioned and the Spitzer ...

Lurking beyond our solar system, among the billions of stars and the exoplanets that orbit them, is another sort of Milky Way altogether. Our "Galaxy of Horrors" reveals the sinister science behind...

This far-off blue planet may look like a friendly haven – but don’t be deceived! Weather here is deadly. The cobalt color comes from a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing clouds laced with gla...

These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered. They orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. 

Hubble is the first major optical telescope in space. Above the distortion of the atmosphere, far above clouds and light pollution, Hubble has an unobstructed view of the universe.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, assisted in the discovery of planets beyond our solar system, including the detection of seven Earth-size planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

The doomed egg-shaped exoplanet WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits so close to its parent star, it's being torn apart.

At only four light-years away, Proxima b is our closest known exoplanet neighbor.

55 Cancri e is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 8.08 Earths, it takes 0.7 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.01544 AU from its star. Its discovery was an...