Looking to the future, NASA and other space agencies have high hopes for the field of extra-solar planet research. In the past decade, the number of known exoplanets has reached just shy of 4000, and many more are expected to be found once next-generation telescopes are put into service. And with so many exoplanets to study, research goals have slowly shifted away from the process of discovery and toward characterization.
Looking to the future, NASA and other space agencies have high hopes for the field of extra-solar planet research. In the past decade, the number of known exoplanets has reached just shy of 4000, and many more are expected to be found once next-generation telescopes are put into service. And with so many exoplanets to study, research goals have slowly shifted away from the process of discovery and toward characterization.
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