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Exoplanet Watch Members of the Month

Exoplanet Watch appreciates the contributions of our interns and our citizen scientists who volunteer their time to study planets beyond our solar system. Come join our team!

  • Heather Hewitt

    Heather Hewitt

    September 2023
  • Jett Peters

    Jett Peters

    August 2023
  • Karen Masters

    Karen Masters

    July 2023
  • Daniel Zaharevitz

    Daniel Zaharevitz

    June 2023
  • Leah Albrow

    Leah Albrow

    May 2023
  • Kyle Lynch

    Kyle Lynch

    April 2023
  • Nora Bailey

    Nora Bailey

    March 2023
  • Pat Boyce

    Pat Boyce

    February 2023
  • Lujayn Megally

    Lujayn Megally

    January 2023
  • Pablo Lewin

    Pablo Lewin

    December 2022
  • Molly Simon

    Molly Simon

    November 2022
  • Neil Yoblonsky

    Neil Yoblonsky

    October 2022
  • Kalee Tock

    Kalee Tock

    September 2022
  • Bruno Guillet

    Bruno Guillet

    August 2022
  • Kiah May, Izzy Huckabee, and Tamim Fatahi

    Kiah May, Izzy Huckabee, and Tamim Fatahi

    July 2022
  • Sauro Gaudenzi

    Sauro Gaudenzi

    June 2022
  • Amanda Johnson

    Amanda Johnson

    May 2022
  • Anthony Norris

    Anthony Norris

    April 2022
  • Muazzez Kumrucu-Lohmiller

    Muazzez Kumrucu-Lohmiller

    March 2022
  • Julio Vannini Ramirez

    Julio Vannini Ramirez

    February 2022
  • Eli Gendreau-Distler

    Eli Gendreau-Distler

    January 2022
  • Georgios Lekkas

    Georgios Lekkas

    December 2021
  • Priyashkumar Bhupendrabhai Mistry

    Priyashkumar Bhupendrabhai Mistry

    November 2021
  • Tamim Fatahi and Jonah Rolfness

    Tamim Fatahi and Jonah Rolfness

    October 2021

Exoplanet Watch News

A large, gaseous planet orbits a star that should have destroyed it.
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Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn't Be There
Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn't Be There
With the discovery of six new exoplanets, scientists have tipped the scales and surpassed 5,500 exoplanets found (there are now 5,502 known exoplanets, to be exact).
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Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!
Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!
Stars farther from the center of our galaxy possess fewer of the most common types of planets, a recent study shows.
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Discovery Alert: On Our Galaxy's Outskirts, a Poverty of Planets
Discovery Alert: On Our Galaxy's Outskirts, a Poverty of Planets
Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere
Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere
A team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope observed during its nearly decade-long mission.
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Astronomers Discover Planets in NASA Kepler's Final Days of Observations
Astronomers Discover Planets in NASA Kepler's Final Days of Observations
New data from NASA's Webb space telescope reveals new details about a strange but common planet type, a 'mini-Neptune.'
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NASA's Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet
NASA's Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet
An international team of researchers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b.
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Webb Measures the Temperature of a TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet
Webb Measures the Temperature of a TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet
The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days.
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Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
A second Earth-sized world is found in habitable zone of a star with three previously known planets.
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Second Earth-sized World Found in System's Habitable Zone
Second Earth-sized World Found in System's Habitable Zone
A previously discovered "hot Jupiter" appears to be spiraling into its star, new data shows.
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Discovery Alert: For This Familiar Planet, a Death Spiral
Discovery Alert: For This Familiar Planet, a Death Spiral
Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and are unlike any planet found in our solar system.
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Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water
Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water
Webb's firsts keep coming: Observations of the exoplanet WASP-39 b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds.
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NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

Explore Alien Worlds

Exoplanet Travel Bureau

This set of travel posters envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now.
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Strange New Worlds

Explore an interactive gallery of some of the most intriguing and exotic planets discovered so far.
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A planetary tour through time. The ancients debated the existence of planets beyond our own; now we know of thousands.

Historic Timeline

A planetary tour through time. The ancients debated the existence of planets beyond our own; now we know of thousands.
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