Exoplanets

Abstract

A brief introduction to Exoplanetology, a relatively new branch of astrophysics, is object of this presentation. We depart for a journey out of the boundaries of our Solar System: we take off from the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, sail through the techniques to search and characterize planets around other Stars, and land on the state-of-the-art space observatories that will heavily contribute with new data to exoplanetary science in the next future. ESA’s CHEOPS, PLATO and ARIEL are those new frontier missions to which ASI is providing massive contributions.