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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October 3, 2026
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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October 2, 2026
TOI-4513 b is a scorching hot planet 335 light-years away that no one has ever seen directly — so how do scientists know it exists? Clever starlight detective work using two cool methods cracked the case, and the answers are pretty amazing.
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September 29, 2026
YZ Cet b is one of the closest exoplanets to Earth, sitting just 12.1 light-years away — but even at that short cosmic distance, it would take over 100,000 years to reach it with today's fastest spacecraft. Find out what makes this tiny, fast-moving world so fascinating.
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September 27, 2026
About 88 light-years away, a star called HD 158259 has five planets packed surprisingly close together — all zooming around in just days! Scientists are still piecing together what these crowded worlds are made of and why they orbit in such a tight, orderly chain.
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September 26, 2026
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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September 23, 2026
YZ Cet d is a planet almost exactly the same size as Earth, but it's 12.1 light-years away — and getting there would take over 200,000 years even in our fastest spacecraft. Find out what we know about this strange, nearby world.
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September 21, 2026
About 87 light-years away, a star called HD 134606 has five planets orbiting around it — and one of them zooms through a full year in just over four days! Find out what scientists discovered about this cool solar system in 2024.
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September 20, 2026
Astronomers found a giant planet 331 light-years away — without ever taking its picture! They used the wobble method, which detects tiny movements in a star caused by a planet's gravity. Find out how this clever trick revealed a world called DMPP-7 b.
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September 17, 2026
GJ 1061 c is a planet just 12 light-years away — practically next door in space! But even the fastest spacecraft ever built would take around 18,000 years to get there. Find out what we know about this super-Earth and its tiny, dim star.
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