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Exoplanet Exploration Program NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program develops advanced mission concepts and technologies with the goal of searching our sun’s galactic neighborhood to find and characterize new worlds … worlds that might harbor life. › Mission home page

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) NExScI is the science operations and analysis center for NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. It provides tools and archives for the exoplanet community, administers the Sagan program of fellowships and workshops and supports the Keck Interferometer. › Mission home page

Kepler Kepler, a NASA Discovery mission, is a spaceborne telescope designed to survey distant stars to determine the prevalence of Earthlike planets. › Mission home page

PlanetQuest The public outreach site for NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program features news, multimedia and a continuously updated database of exoplanet discoveries. › Mission home page

Gaia Gaia is a mission that will conduct a census of one thousand million stars in our galaxy. It will monitor each of its target stars about 70 times over a five-year period, precisely charting their positions, distances, movements, and changes in brightness. › Mission home page