July 10, 2026
In 2026, scientists discovered a new planet called LHS 1903 d, orbiting a dim red star 116 light-years away. Find out how astronomers used tiny dips in starlight to spot this distant world — and what those dips reveal about the planet's size and orbit.
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July 7, 2026
About 127 light-years away, a star called HD 10180 has at least six planets orbiting around it — including one giant world ten times more massive than Jupiter! Learn how scientists found these distant worlds and what makes this system so fascinating.
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July 7, 2026
GJ 887 c is one of the closest exoplanets to Earth, sitting just 10.7 light-years away and orbiting a calm, dim red dwarf star. Scientists are still figuring out what this warm, super-Earth-sized world is really like — and whether it could ever support life.
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July 4, 2026
Astronomers discovered a faraway planet called LHS 1903 e without ever seeing it directly. By watching tiny changes in starlight, scientists figured out its size, weight, and temperature from 116 light-years away. Find out how they did it!
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July 2, 2026
Meet HD 100508 b, a giant planet 107 light-years away that is even bigger than Jupiter! Scientists just discovered it in 2026, and it raises some exciting questions about what kinds of worlds exist beyond our solar system.
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July 1, 2026
Epsilon Eridani b is one of the closest known exoplanets to Earth — but close in space still means 10.5 light-years away! Find out how long it would take to travel there, what kind of planet it is, and how scientists discovered it.
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June 30, 2026
Meet HD 68475 b, a giant planet about 109 light-years away that is five times heavier than Jupiter! Scientists confirmed it in 2026, and they are still uncovering its secrets — including what it is made of and exactly how far it travels around its star.
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June 28, 2026
Scientists found a scorching hot world called TOI-5734 b orbiting a star 106 light-years away — and they did it without ever taking a single photo of the planet. Find out how two clever methods helped crack the case.
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June 25, 2026
Barnard e is a small planet orbiting one of the closest stars to Earth, just 5.96 light-years away. Even at that short cosmic distance, a trip there would take thousands of years. Find out what makes this nearby world so fascinating!
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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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