The European Space Agency (ESA) has a number of missions ongoing to discover and study exoplanets, which are planets outside of our solar system. One of those missions, Cheops (CHaracterising ...

Europe's CHEOPS spacecraft will continue investigating planets outside our solar system until at least 2026. The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on March 9 that CHEOPS will continue its ...

CHEOPS is an European space telescope for the study of the formation of extrasolar planets. The launch window for CHEOPS is October to November 2019. The mission is a partnership between ESA and ...

CHEOPS is a partnership between ESA and Switzerland with important contributions by ten additional ESA Member States. CHEOPS is the first mission dedicated to search for transits of exoplanets using ...

Cheops, ESA’s new exoplanet mission, has successfully completed its almost three months of in-orbit commissioning, exceeding expectations for its performance. The satellite, which will commence ...

High-precision photometer on board will search for “Earthlike” exoplanets; successfully sent into orbit after delayed launch. Better late than never: Cheops' transport rocket blasts off. After a day's ...

Over the past decade, exoplanet missions such as NASA's Kepler mission and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) have found more than 4,000 alien worlds across the vast universe. But a newcomer ...

A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou will boost ESA’s upcoming exoplanet satellite into space. Cheops will share the ride into space with another payload, with the ...