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Worlds around other stars, and how we find and study them. Every story links to its primary source.

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Artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832

October 5, 2026ESA/Hubble

Hubble Data Reveal a Candidate Second-Generation Planet

Artist's concept of an extreme debris disk of warm dust produced by collisions between young rocky bodies

October 1, 2026ESA/Webb

Webb Studies 21 Extreme Debris Disks Left by Planet-Shattering Impacts

September 16, 2026W. M. Keck Observatory

Elias 2-24 b Is the Youngest Exoplanet Yet, Still Growing in Its Disk

Artist's impression of the CD-35 2722 system, where a Jupiter-mass object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star

July 22, 2026ESO

VLT Finds Evidence of a Jupiter-Mass Exomoon Orbiting a Brown Dwarf

VLT image of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris d beside its masked host star

July 15, 2026ESO

Beta Pictoris d Is the Faintest Exoplanet Ever Imaged From the Ground

Artist's impression of a hot gas giant exoplanet wrapped in a magnetic field

June 2, 2026ESO

Hot Jupiter Winds Give the Best Evidence Yet of Exoplanet Magnetism