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Occupying the left two-thirds of the image is a foreground planet mostly in shadow. On the right side, a tan crescent shows subtle surface features. A thin, tenuous blue atmosphere lines the planet’s limb. On the right, a small red globe represents a red dwarf star. Its surface is mottled with small, dark spots resembling sunspots. Both planet and star are on a mostly black background speckled with hundreds of faint, distant stars.

Documents

A repository of key ExEP documents — links and downloads

K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

Key Links

Collected ExEP-relevant links

Artist’s concept illustrating a grid of diverse exoplanets, each shown as a small globe with varying colors, textures, and atmospheric patterns, representing the more than 6,000 confirmed planets discovered outside our solar system.

Studies

Decadal Surveys, Science and Technology Definition Teams, and StarShade Working Group information

Planet Illustrations–2 with cloud bands, 1 with white clouds

Exoplanet Meetings

Past and future meeting information

This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.

Presentations

Archive of talks and presentations

Target Star catalog

The Search for Habitable Worlds

The Target Star Catalog is a guide to intriguing nearby stars that astronomers want to study with future missions, such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will be built specifically to find and observe Earth-like exoplanets, to search for signs of life.

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An M dwarf star is seen with three exoplanets.
An artist's rendering of a red dwarf or M star, with three exoplanets orbiting. About 75 percent of all stars in the sky are the cooler, smaller red dwarfs.
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Exoplanet Catalog

Learn more about every confirmed exoplanet — 6,000+ and counting — in this continuously updated resource. View interactive 3D models, read descriptions and vital statistics, and filter by exoplanet type, or by the method used to discover it, or by the spacecraft, observatory, or other facility that found it.

Browse the Exoplanet Catalog
Screenshot of the Eyes on Exoplanets interactive showing an orange gas giant planet KELT-4 A b.
Screenshot of the Eyes on Exoplanets interactive showing an orange gas giant planet KELT-4 A b.
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