The Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite, officially known as CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite – or CHEOPS, is a joint European Space Agency and Swiss Space Office space telescope designed to study the formation and sizes of known transiting exoplanets.
Liftoff of the mission, which includes the first of the second generation of Cosmo-SkyMed satellites as well as three smaller CubeSats, took place from the Guiana Space Center on Wednesday, following a scrub during the countdown on Tuesday.
As part of NASA’s continued effort to ensure a steady supply of astrophysics and astronomy…
NASA’s award to SpaceX for the launch contract for their future X-ray telescope, the Imaging…
While the Kepler Space Telescope mission officially came to an end on 30 October 2018,…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at…
SpaceX has launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS – with the launch on…
An array of high tech instruments are being put through their paces ahead of becoming…
The continuing success of NASA’s Kepler mission was highlighted on Monday, following the discovery of…
Following on the planetary accomplishments of NASA’s fleet of unmanned solar system explorers in 2011,…
The Delta II rocket has launched on its 150th flight on Saturday, departing from Cape…
After one and one half years in space, NASA’s Kepler observatory, a telescope designed to…
For NASA, 2009 proved to be a stellar year, one filled with five extremely successful…
The Delta II launch team at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have launched NASA’s…
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of…
The launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory is now targeting December 13,…
NASA has announced the discovery of a planetary system around star K2-138. The discovery was…
As 2017 comes to a close, it does so in the realm of exoplanet research…
Space exploration in 2015 was an unprecedented series of firsts and major achievements. But for…
In a year primarily dominated by interest in in-solar system exploration, 2013 saw significant and…
For NASA’s unmanned explorers, 2012 was an astonishing year filled with discoveries and observations inside…
