This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of CHEOPS, the European Space Agency’s exoplanet investigation satellite. CHEOPS looks at known exoplanets discovered by other missions and ...

ESA's CHEOPS has passed the commissioning phase of its journey The space telescope tested its instruments and functions for about three months CHEOPS will most likely begin its mission by studying a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s new exoplanet-hunting instrument, the CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS), has opened its eyes to observe the universe for the first time. The ESA launched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's depiction of ESA's CHEOPS telescope at work studying exoplanets. Europe's CHEOPS spacecraft will continue ...

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 ...

A new space telescope just launched into Earth orbit, where it's expected to take an unprecedented look at some of the 4,000 mysterious planets scientists have discovered outside our solar system. The ...

CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which the mission team was forced to carry out from home due to the coronavirus crisis, the space telescope ...

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 ...

While the planet has been on lockdown the last two months, a new space telescope called CHEOPS opened its eyes, took its first pictures of the heavens and is now open for business. I have been in the ...

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 ...