August 20, 2026
HD 27969 b is a giant planet nearly 13 times wider than Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star 222 light-years away. Could it support life? Scientists have some clues, but the answer might surprise you.
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August 18, 2026
Tau Cet h is one of the closest exoplanets we know about, but even so, getting there would take thousands of years with today's spacecraft. Find out just how far 11.8 light-years really is and what it would take to make the trip.
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August 12, 2026
tau Cet g is one of the closest known exoplanets to Earth, sitting just 11.8 light-years away. This super-Earth zooms around its star in only 20 days — and scientists are just beginning to uncover its secrets.
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August 11, 2026
DMPP-8 b is a giant planet discovered in 2026, orbiting a star 248 light-years away. It completes one trip around its star in just 63 days, and scientists think it may be a warm, gas-filled world similar to Jupiter or Saturn — but with plenty of mysteries still to solve.
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August 9, 2026
Astronomers found a faraway planet called TOI-1732 b using a clever trick — watching for tiny dips in starlight when the planet passes in front of its star. Find out how this method works and what scientists have learned about this hot, fast world 244 light-years away.
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August 6, 2026
GJ 15 A c is a giant planet almost 12 light-years away, orbiting a dim red star so slowly that one year there lasts over 20 Earth years. Find out how scientists discovered it and what this faraway world might really be like!
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August 3, 2026
A planet 188 light-years away crosses in front of its star once every little more than a day, causing a tiny dip in starlight. Find out how astronomers used that almost invisible flicker — plus a star's tiny wobble — to discover a scorching world called TOI-6281 b.
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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 31, 2026
GJ 15 A b is one of the closest exoplanets to Earth, sitting just 11.6 light-years away — but even at that short distance, it would take tens of thousands of years to reach it. Find out what this super-Earth is like and how scientists discovered it.
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July 28, 2026
Scientists can't photograph DMPP-6 c, but they still proved it exists — 178 light-years away! Find out how a tiny starlight wobble and a cool trick called the Doppler effect helped astronomers uncover this mysterious world bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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