October 9, 2026
About 117 light-years away, a star almost exactly like our Sun has at least five planets orbiting it. One of those planets is even bigger than Jupiter — and scientists are still figuring out what the rest of the family looks like.
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October 5, 2026
YZ Cet c is one of Earth's closest exoplanet neighbors, sitting just 12.1 light-years away. It's almost the same size as Earth, but a year there lasts only three days — and the surface is hot enough to boil water!
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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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September 9, 2026
About 35 light-years away, a small cool star called L 98-59 has five planets packed tightly around it. One of them, L 98-59 d, is giving scientists real clues about what it might be made of — and there is still so much more to discover.
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August 16, 2026
About 922 light-years away, a star called Kepler-20 has at least six planets all packed closer together than Mercury is to our Sun. Scientists are still uncovering secrets about this strange planetary family — and what they've found already is pretty surprising.
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August 4, 2026
Three hundred and forty-seven light-years away, a star called HIP 41378 has six planets circling around it. One of those planets, HIP 41378 d, is giving scientists some of their best clues yet about what faraway worlds might really be made of.
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July 23, 2026
About 205 light-years away, a cool orange star is home to six planets packed tightly together and moving in a perfectly timed rhythm. This amazing system breaks many rules scientists expected — and it has a lot to teach us about how planetary families form.
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July 17, 2026
175 light-years away, a star called HD 191939 is surrounded by at least six planets — including one called HD 191939 c, a world bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Learn how scientists found this busy planet family and what makes it so special.
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July 9, 2026
Kepler-553 c is a giant planet orbiting a star more than 2,000 light-years away — and scientists think liquid water might not be completely impossible there. Find out what makes this faraway world so interesting and so mysterious.
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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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