September 6, 2026
Astronomers have confirmed a new planet called TOI-5532 b, located 297 light-years away. It's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, orbits its star in just 5.65 days, and is hot enough to melt lead. What else makes this distant world so interesting?
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September 5, 2026
GJ 1061 d is one of Earth's closest exoplanet neighbors, sitting just 12 light-years away — but that still means about 114 trillion kilometers of empty space. Find out what scientists know about this super-Earth and why it might be one of the most interesting nearby worlds to study.
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September 4, 2026
TIC 139702105 b is a mini-Neptune exoplanet 299 light-years away with a year that lasts less than a week! Scientists are just beginning to learn about this fascinating world that could be wrapped in layers of gas and water.
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September 3, 2026
Just 23.6 light-years away, a small red star called GJ 667 C has five worlds orbiting around it — and one of them, GJ 667 C g, is almost twice as wide as Earth. Could any of these planets have liquid water or even life?
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September 2, 2026
HD 48265 c is a giant planet 295 light-years away that no telescope has ever photographed. Scientists still figured out its size, mass, and year length just by watching how its star wobbles — and the answer is pretty amazing.
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September 1, 2026
Kepler-1362 b is a distant world nearly 2,400 light-years away, sitting in the zone where liquid water might be possible. Scientists don't know yet if it has air, water, or a solid surface — but it has already passed the first big test.
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August 31, 2026
Meet TOI-1756 b, a super-Earth discovered in 2026 that is nearly twice as wide as our planet and hot enough to melt lead! Scientists are still puzzling over what it is made of, and the answers could teach us a lot about how planets form.
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August 30, 2026
Eps Ind A b is one of the closest exoplanets to Earth, sitting just 11.9 light-years away — but even at that distance, it would take Voyager 1 more than 200,000 years to get there. Find out what this giant, mysterious world is really like.
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August 29, 2026
TOI-5486 b is a mysterious planet nearly four times wider than Earth, zooming around its star in just two days. Scientists call it a mini-Neptune, and it belongs to a type of planet our solar system doesn't even have — so what exactly is hiding inside it?
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August 28, 2026
About 2,108 light-years away, a star called Kepler-11 has six whole planets orbiting around it — and scientists found all of them at the same time! This crowded solar system is packed into a space smaller than Earth's orbit around our Sun.
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