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 ...

Artist’s impression of Cheops, ESA’s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, in orbit above Earth. In this view the satellite’s telescope cover is open. ESA / ATG medialab The Characterizing Exoplanet ...

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 ...

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 European Space Agency (ESA) is set to give existing orbiting probes, such as COROT and Kepler, a helping hand in studying super-Earths. Selected from 26 proposals, the CHEOPS (CHaracterising ...

CHEOPS is busy identifying "golden targets" to inform and direct deeper study missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

An Italian professor at the Politecnico di Milano says that there could be an iron throne right below the apex of the Pyramid of Cheops, located in the Giza pyramid complex, Egypt. If there is such an ...

CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope reveal details of the exoplanet WASP-189b - one of the most extreme planets known. Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started ...

A Soyuz rocket lifts off from Kourou in French Guiana at 3:54 Eastern Dec. 18, 2019. Credit: ESA HELSINKI — A Soyuz rocket successfully launched an Italian Earth observation satellite Dec. 18, with ...

Artwork: Cheops observes exoplanets as they pass in front of their host stars Europe's newest space telescope has begun ramping up its science operations. Cheops was launched in December to study and ...