October 20, 2026
TOI-5777 b is a scorching hot planet 373 light-years away — and we found it without ever seeing it directly. Discover the two clever tricks astronomers used to spot this hidden world and figure out what it might be made of.
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October 16, 2026
TOI-5938 b is a strange world nearly four times wider than Earth, orbiting a distant orange star in just over two days. It belongs to a type of planet our solar system has none of — and it is already helping scientists understand what most planets in the galaxy are really like.
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October 10, 2026
TOI-4662 b is a mysterious world almost nine times heavier than Earth, racing around an orange star in just 4.7 days. Scientists discovered it in 2026, and its strange size and mass raise big questions about what might be hiding inside.
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September 15, 2026
Just 42 light-years away, a star called HD 40307 has at least five planets packed tightly around it. One of them is thousands of times heavier than Earth and blazing hot. What else is hiding in this crowded star family?
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August 22, 2026
About 1,205 light-years away, a star called Kepler-80 has six planets packed incredibly close together — all zooming around their star in just a few Earth days. Scientists are learning how these worlds stay in perfect rhythm with each other without crashing!
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June 24, 2026
Meet GJ 1137 c, a planet twice the size of Earth that races around an orange star in less than ten days! It belongs to a type of world called a mini-Neptune — and there is nothing like it in our own solar system.
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June 23, 2026
Just 21 light-years away, a star called HD 219134 has at least six planets circling it — making it one of the closest multi-planet systems to Earth. Scientists are learning what these worlds might be made of, and the answers are surprising!
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June 13, 2026
TOI-5789 d is a super-Earth almost twice as wide as our planet, orbiting an orange star just 66.7 light-years away. Scientists are piecing together what this hot, rocky-ish world is made of — and the answer might surprise you.
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