Meet the HD 108236 System: 5 Worlds Around One Star

Meet the HD 108236 System: 5 Worlds Around One Star

October 27, 2026

Meet the HD 108236 System: 5 Worlds Around One Star

About 211 light-years away, a star called HD 108236 has five planets circling it — and scientists are working to learn what each one is like. Comparing all five worlds together helps us understand how solar systems are built across the galaxy.

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HD 23472: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

October 21, 2026

HD 23472: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

About 127 light-years away, a cool orange star called HD 23472 has at least five planets circling close around it. One of them is a super-hot, super-dense world that helps scientists figure out how rocky planets form across the galaxy.

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Meet TOI-201 d: A Newly Found Super-Earth

October 18, 2026

Meet TOI-201 d: A Newly Found Super-Earth

TOI-201 d is a super-Earth discovered in 2026, orbiting a star 371 light-years away. It completes a full orbit in under six days and reaches scorching temperatures hotter than lava. Find out what makes this strange, fast-moving world so fascinating to scientists!

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Kepler-444: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

October 15, 2026

Kepler-444: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

Meet Kepler-444, a star older than our Solar System with five tiny planets all packed closer together than Mercury is to our Sun. One of those worlds, Kepler-444 f, is small, scorching hot, and full of mysteries scientists are still working to solve.

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HD 20781: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

October 3, 2026

HD 20781: A Family of Worlds Around One Star

117 light-years away, a star called HD 20781 has at least five planets orbiting around it! Scientists are learning how these worlds formed and why some planets zoom around their star in just five days. Could any of them be like Earth?

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TOI-5624 d: A New World Around TOI-5624

September 30, 2026

TOI-5624 d: A New World Around TOI-5624

Astronomers confirmed a new planet called TOI-5624 d in 2026, and it is a wild one — a scorching hot world that zips around its star in just 13.7 days! It is one of five planets in its system, and scientists are still figuring out what it is made of.

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What Is TOI-5624 c? A Mini-Neptune

September 28, 2026

What Is TOI-5624 c? A Mini-Neptune

TOI-5624 c is a world nearly two and a half times wider than Earth, but it orbits its star in less than eight days and reaches scorching temperatures. Find out what makes this faraway mini-Neptune so interesting to scientists!

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Spotting TOI-5624 e: The Transit Method

September 26, 2026

Spotting TOI-5624 e: The Transit Method

A planet called TOI-5624 e was discovered 332 light-years away using a clever trick — scientists watched for tiny dips in starlight to find a world they could never see directly. Find out how this hot, mysterious planet was spotted and what scientists have learned so far.

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Say Hello to TOI-5624 b, a Mini-Neptune

September 24, 2026

Say Hello to TOI-5624 b, a Mini-Neptune

TOI-5624 b is a planet 332 light-years away that completes a full orbit in just 3.39 days and reaches temperatures hotter than Venus! It belongs to a type of planet called a mini-Neptune — and our solar system doesn't have a single one.

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Meet TOI-5624 f: A Mini-Neptune Around a Sun-Like Star

September 22, 2026

Meet TOI-5624 f: A Mini-Neptune Around a Sun-Like Star

TOI-5624 f is a mini-Neptune almost four times wider than Earth, orbiting a star a lot like our Sun — 332 light-years away. Scientists found it in a surprising way, by watching how its gravity pushed and pulled on neighboring planets!

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