
Exoplanet Catalog - NASA Science
Jan 23, 2025 · This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 5,800 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. …
List of potentially habitable exoplanets - Wikipedia
This is a list of notable exoplanets within the circumstellar habitable zone that are either under 10 Earth masses or smaller than 2.5 Earth radii and have not yet been confirmed. Earth is …
The 10 most Earth-like exoplanets | Space
Aug 6, 2024 · Scientists have found over 5,000 exoplanets since the first such world was confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in 1995. We explore the ones most similar to Earth.
Super-Earth - Wikipedia
A Super-Earth or super-terran or super-tellurian is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, …
Exoplanets - NASA Science
Jan 30, 2025 · An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve …
Exoplanet - Wikipedia
An exoplanet was defined by the following criteria: Objects with true masses below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium (currently calculated to be 13 Jupiter masses for …
Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b
Sep 11, 2023 · A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing …
Newly Discovered Earth-like Exoplanet May Hold Potential for Life
Jan 28, 2025 · The exoplanet’s size, proximity to Earth, and potential to hold water makes it a prime candidate to search for life, as well as testing hypothesis about conditions that could …
NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet …
Jan 12, 2023 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first Earth-like exoplanet, and for the first time, researchers will be able to examine the planet’s atmosphere.
A super-Venus exoplanet (with a watery name) - EarthSky
Jan 27, 2025 · View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet – a world orbiting a distant star – called GJ 1214 b.Previously thought to be a watery “super-Earth,” or a mini-Neptune with a …