Our Solar System is not alone in the Galaxy. My group uses our on-campus research telescope to help discover exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. We search stars for signs that an orbiting planet is passing between us and periodically blocking a small fraction ( < 1%) of the star’s light in an event known as a transit. We work as part of two international collaborations. With the ground-based KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) project, we have already helped to discover several giant planets that have been puffed up as a result of their close proximity to the very hot stars they orbit. We are also part of the follow-up team for NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission, due to launch in Spring 2018.