Teaching Space With NASA – The Search for Exoplanets

Our solar system exists in a sea of countless solar systems across billions of galaxies. While we can't yet visit these distant worlds with robotic or human-led missions, we are beginning to get a better picture of them thanks to powerful telescopes and remote-sensing techniques that allow us to analyze their chemical signatures and more. In this educational science talk, astrophysicist Vanessa Bailey joins education specialist Brandon Rodriguez to discuss how we search for and study planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, and what we're hoping to discover.