October 21, 2026
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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October 15, 2026
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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September 28, 2026
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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September 18, 2026
A newly confirmed planet called TOI-808 b orbits its star in less than 10 days and reaches temperatures hot enough to melt metal. Scientists are still puzzling out how this scorching world ended up so close to its star — and what it can teach us about planets beyond our solar system.
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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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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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August 1, 2026
DMPP-6 b is a newly confirmed planet 178 light-years away, and it completes an entire year in just 7.6 days! It belongs to a type of planet called a mini-Neptune — one of the most common kinds in the galaxy, but totally absent from our own solar system.
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July 29, 2026
About 276 light-years away, a star called TOI-1136 has six planets circling around it. One of them, TOI-1136 f, is almost four times wider than Earth — and scientists are using this crowded system to learn how planet families are built.
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June 29, 2026
One hundred and five light-years away, a star called HD 110067 has six planets orbiting around it in an almost musical pattern. Scientists are studying this amazing family of worlds to learn how planets form and why our own Solar System looks so different.
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June 21, 2026
Meet HD 176986 d, a mini-Neptune planet almost two and a half times wider than Earth, orbiting an orange star 90.6 light-years away. Scientists are piecing together what this mysterious world is made of — and the answer could help explain planets all across our galaxy.
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