Eyes on Exoplanets Tutorial Welcome to NASA’s Eyes on Exoplanets! Use this tutorial to start exploring worlds beyond our own. With this 3D interactive tool, you can visit all the stars beyond the Sun where we’ve found other planets, called exoplanets. Choose a star or exoplanet and see an artist’s concept of what it might […]
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TOI-3457 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a F-type star. Its mass is 2.51 Jupiters, it takes 32.6 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.2001 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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GJ 3378 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 2.3 Earths, it takes 21.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.09673 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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HD 5388 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a F-type star. Its mass is 3.2 Jupiters, it takes 2.1 years to complete one orbit of its star, and is 1.757 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2010.
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HD 16760 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 21.5 Jupiters, it takes 466.1 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 1.156 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2009.
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TOI-707 b is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 6.42 Earths, it takes 52.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.275 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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HD 6718 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 2.4 Jupiters, it takes 6.8 years to complete one orbit of its star, and is 3.53 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2009.
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HD 148427 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 1.2 Jupiters, it takes 331.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 1.11 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2009.
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A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the soot produced by combustion engines.
Scientists accidentally discover magnetic fields around 7 distant planets
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system thanks to their high-speed, violent winds, representing a major step forward in exoplanet research.
How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the bright beautiful structures exoplanets create.
Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key element for the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the primary mirror. This 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) mirror will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, helping Roman capture stunning panoramas of space. “The Roman engineering […]
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds — a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other […]
The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than the rule for exoplanets.
TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the solar system.
Earth has four seasons - spring, summer, fall, and winter. Other planets can experience seasons, too, but they might be wildly different from the ones that we are used to. Find out about how seasons work and what role the Sun plays in causing them.
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NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date
A recently developed ultra-black coating not only efficiently absorbs light, but is also extremely thin and durable, enabling its potential use on starshades that could someday support the imaging of exoplanets and potentially facilitate the detection of life beyond our solar system.
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The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerous ground-based and space-based telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Soon, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the […]
TOI-1752 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 3.51 Earths, it takes 0.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.01624 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-1752 c is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a M-type star. Its mass is 5.86 Earths, it takes 32.7 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1614 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-5624 f is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 13 Earths, it takes 45.4 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.2366 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-5624 e is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 8.9 Earths, it takes 21.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1439 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-5624 d is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 4.9 Earths, it takes 13.7 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1067 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-5624 c is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 4.8 Earths, it takes 7.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.07374 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TIC 183374187 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 0.56 Jupiters, it takes 5.1 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.054697181101447 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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TOI-201 d is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a F-type star. Its mass is 5.8 Earths, it takes 5.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0698 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2026.
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By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process.
Just in time for May the 4th, aka Star Wars Day.
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