Europe's New Exoplanet Hunter Satellite
Satellite Spots 1st Alien World Source: ESA CHEOPS ESA's New Highly Advanced Satellite Europe's new exoplanet-spotting space telescope CHEOPS has been tested in space for the past three months. It has successfully spotted several exoplanets. These are planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system. They're known as alien planets, By the end of April it will start scientific observations of great importance to the process of discovering life beyond the Earth. CHEOPS CHEOPS is on a different mission than NASA's Kepler space telescope that searches for exoplanets. The CHEOPS space telescope is targeting known exoplanets to determine their sizes and density. Thanks to its highly advanced instrumentation, the accuracy of measurement that CHEOPS delivers will be unprecedented. Search for Alien Life on Alien Planets The discoveries and findings from CHEOPS are expected to be critical to scientists in