September 8, 2026
TOI-697 b is a planet so far away that no telescope can photograph it — yet scientists still figured out its size, mass, and temperature just by watching starlight. Find out how two clever tricks turn tiny signals into big discoveries!
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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 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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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 27, 2026
Astronomers found a distant world called TOI-1466 b by catching its tiny shadow crossing a star 282 light-years away. Learn how two clever space detective tricks — watching for dimming starlight and measuring a star's wobble — revealed this super-hot planet.
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August 26, 2026
TOI-1736 c is a giant planet about 290 light-years away that orbits a Sun-like star. Scientists are asking whether it could support life, and the answer involves frozen temperatures, mysterious atmospheres, and a planet so huge it probably has no solid ground at all.
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August 25, 2026
Meet HIP 54515 b, a giant planet so massive it sits right at the edge of being a failed star! It takes about 90 Earth years just to complete one orbit, and scientists actually captured light from it directly — one of the rarest ways to find a planet.
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August 19, 2026
Meet TOI-4363 b, a real planet discovered in 2026 that is nearly four times heavier than Earth and so close to its star that one year lasts only about two days. Scientists have already uncovered some amazing facts about this scorching super-Earth — and there is still so much more to learn.
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August 13, 2026
A planet called TOI-2133 b orbits its star in less than four days and is hot enough to melt most metals. Scientists confirmed this strange world in 2026, and it is already teaching us more about the many kinds of planets that exist across the galaxy.
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