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New Missions Aim to Find Earth-Like Exoplanets
10/9/2025
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- Over 6,000 exoplanets have been discovered, none resembling Earth.
- The European Space Agency's PLATO will launch in December 2026 to search for rocky planets in habitable zones.
- NASA's Roman Space Telescope, China's Earth 2.0 mission, and ARIEL will follow, with Roman expected to identify about 2,000 microlensing planets.
- Kesseli emphasizes Habitable Worlds Observatory to study Earth-like planets.
