2025 Exoplanet Archive News
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This page contains a summary of the current calendar year's Exoplanet Archive news. For other news archives by year, see the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2011-12 archives.
For a compilation of periodic tips that have appeared in past news items, see the Tip Archive.
To view only the most recently added planets and updated parameters (default and non-default), see this pre-filtered and pre-sorted interactive table.
June 26, 2025
Five Planets and Eight Spectra
This week's release includes Kepler-725 c, a planet of 10 Earth masses located in its Sun-like star's optimistic habitable zone. Check out the media release and Nature paper for details. The other new planets are TOI-1117 b, c, & d and TOI-2407 b. Click on a planet name to go directly to its System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
There are also eight new spectra for TRAPPIST-1 c, WASP-96 b, and the nearby sub-stellar object WISE J1049 b (a.k.a. Luhman 16 b). Access these in the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.
News panel image credit: ESO/I. Crossfield/N. Risinger
June 12, 2025
A Giant Planet Orbiting a Tiny Star
One of this week's four planets is TOI-6894 b, a sub-Saturn-mass planet orbiting a low-mass red dwarf—the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet. This discovery challenges some current planetary formation models and theories. Check out the University College London media release and the discovery paper.
The other new planets are TOI-2969 b, TOI-2989 b, and TOI-5300 b. There are also new parameters for seven planets: KELT-11 b, Kepler-10 b, c, & d, MASCARA-4 b, and TOI-1468 b, WASP-127 b. Click on a planet name to go directly to its System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We also have seven more spectra for five planets: GJ 357 b, HAT-P-2 b, LHS 1140 c, LTT 1445 A b, and WASP-127 b. You can find these in the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.An ExoFOP Milestone: 1 Million Files and Counting!
The Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program (ExoFOP), which was created in 2008 to help researchers collaborate and share observational data to confirm exoplanet candidates, has surpassed one million user-submitted data files.
This incredible achievement is a testament to the dedication and collaboration of the exoplanet research community. Of the nearly 6,000 exoplanets confirmed thus far, data shared by the community through ExoFOP has contributed to approximately 4,000 of them.
From all of us at NExScI, thank you for your continued support and commitment to exoplanet science. This milestone would not have been possible without you. Here's to the next million!
Read more about this exciting milestone in IPAC's media release.
News panel image credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
June 5, 2025
It's Getting Spectra-ordinary Around Here
The archive has six new planets this week and 14 spectra, which inches us closer to another data milestone of 1,000 atmospheric spectra!
This week's update bumps up the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table's spectra count to 979, with new data for TOI-1468 b (4 spectra), WASP-43 b (1), TrES-4 b (2), WASP-15 b (4), and HD 219666 b (3).
Pro Tip: You can access the table from the planet's Planetary Parameters section in its System Overview page.
This week's new planets are TIC 434398831 b & c, KMT-2017-BLG-2197L b, KMT-2022-BLG-1790L b, KMT-2022-BLG-2076L b, and KMT-2023-BLG-2209L b. Click on a planet name to go directly to its System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We've also updated the disposition of 42 Dra b to False Positive Planet based on a published refutation. The object has been removed from the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Parameters tables, but its data are still available on the System Overview page.
Our Accepted Paper is Now on arXiv!
We're happy to announce our latest paper, "The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage," has been accepted by the Planetary Science Journal and is available in arXiv as Christiansen et al. (2025). This paper is an updated overview of the archive's data, services and tools since Akeson et al. (2013), our initial publication.
Please use Christiansen et al. (2025) for all future citations. We will update the link to the paper on our Acknowledging the NASA Exoplanet Archive in Publications page once the paper is posted to ADS.
A Quick Update About Our Planetary Systems Composite Data Table
We've made a few changes to the Planetary Systems Composite Data (PSCompPars) table's underlying algorithms, which should improve the precision and accuracy of the displayed values. Users may notice new values for some parameters.
News panel image credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT, Julien de Wit
May 30, 2025
Seven Jupiters!
This week's new planets are seven Jupiters in a broad range of orbits, with five of them orbiting evolved stars.
The new planets are HD 87816 b & c, HD 94890 b & c, HD 102888 b, and TOI-6695 b & c. There are also new parameters for HD 121056 b & c, HD 118203 b & c, and WASP-107 b.
Click on their names to go directly to their System Overview pages or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
News panel image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
May 22, 2025
Two-sday on a Thursday: Two Planets and Two Spectra Added
Our two new planets this week are TOI-2076 e, a new super-Earth in a young system, and TOI-5573 b, a Saturn orbiting an M dwarf. New data for have also been added for WASP-77 A b and Kepler-90 g & h.
Click on their names to go directly to their System Overview pages or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
Also, there are two new spectra for TOI-431 b and HAT-P-26 b from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.
May 15, 2025
These Go to 11: New Planets This Week
This week's update brings our total planet count to 5,903*, which means we're fewer than 100 exoplanets away from the next milestone of 6,000 planets! Also, notably, six of the 11 new planets are in multi-planet systems.
The new planets are HD 35843 b & c, K2-157 c & d, KMT-2017-BLG-0849L b, KMT-2017-BLG-1057L b, KMT-2017-BLG-2331L b, OGLE-2017-BLG-0364L b, TOI-1803 b & c, and TOI-2005 b. There are also more parameters for KELT-18 b.
Click on any planet name to go directly to its System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
* We also updated the status of 2M1510 b from confirmed to candidate, so our confirmed planet count increases by 10 this week.
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Four New Planets and Spectra for Three Planets
This week's new planets include OGLE-2016-BLG-0007L b, which was discovered as part of a study that concludes that super-Earth exoplanets are more common than previously thought. Read the Ohio State University media release and the discovery paper. The other new planets are AT2021ueyL b, TOI-771 c, and TOI-6324 b. Click on the planet names to go directly to their System Overview pages, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We've also added 11 new spectra for three planets: LTT 9779 b and TOI-776 b & c. Use the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table to browse, view, plot, and download the spectra.
May 1, 2025
Say Ciao to ROME, Our Newest Dataset
This week the NASA Exoplanet Archive has released the Robotic Observations of Microlensing Events/Reactive Event Assessment (ROME/REA) dataset, published last year in Street et al. (2024).
The data release consists of ~8 million light curves in three optical passbands from 20 fields in the Galactic bulge over a three-year period, down to a limiting magnitude of i~18th magnitude. The data have a typical cadence of 10-15 hours while the fields were visible to the Las Cumbres Observatory network of telescopes. The data contain thousands of microlensing events, eclipsing binaries, and RR Lyrae and longer-period variable stars, and can be used as a training set for classification of objects in future surveys, such as the Vera Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time, starting this year.
The ROME/REA data are served through the archive through our interactive Firely-based service. To get started, click the Data pull-down menu in our site navigation and select ROME/REA Microlensing Survey in the Other section. (Here is the direct link.)
More information about the ROME/REA dataset and using the online service is provided on the User Guide tab within the interface:
Four New Planets and Six Direct Imaging Spectra
Also released this week are planets Kepler-139 f, TOI-3493 b, TOI-6478 b, and 2M1510 b, as well as more parameters for GPX-1 b and HD 3167 b & c. Click on their names to view their System Overview page, or browse Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
Direct imaging spectra for AF Lep b, eps Ind A b, and WD 0806-661 b are also now served through our Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.
News panel image credit: Street et al. (2024)
April 24, 2025
Data for 15 Planets and Spectra for 6, Including K2-18 b
This week's release features new spectra from JWST for temperate sub-Neptune K2-18 b, which made news headlines this week (as well as in October 2023). Read the discovery paper and then head to our Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table to look at the data and compare with your own models!
The other planets with new spectra are GJ 504 b, HR 8799 c, d, & e, and HR 2562 b.
The nine new planets are WASP-102 b (TOI-6170), WASP-116 b (TOI-4672), WASP-149 b (TOI-6101), WASP-154 b (TOI-5288), WASP-155 b (TOI-6135), WASP-188 b (TOI-5190), WASP-194 b (TOI-3791), WASP-195 b (TOI-4056), and WASP-197 b (TOI-5385). There are also new parameters for GJ 504 b and HR 2562 b.
Click on any planet name to go directly to its System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
News panel image credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)
April 17, 2025
Seven New Planets, Including a Neighboring sub-Neptune
This week's seven new planets bump our planet count to 5,876, and feature sub-Neptune Gl 410 b located only 40 light-years away.
The other planets are G 192-15 b & c, G 261-6 b, G 268-110 b, Kepler-279 e, and Kepler-289 e. There are also new parameters for 55 Cnc e, TOI-2202 b, WASP-106 b, and WASP-131 b, and an additional 145 planets from Ofir et al. 2025.
Click on the planet names to go directly to their System Overview pages, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
April 10, 2025
Two New Microlensing Planets and Water in the Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-52 b!
This week's release includes KMT-2019-BLG-0578L b and KMT-2021-BLG-0736L b discovered through reanalysis of archival microlensing data, and a JWST spectrum of WASP-52 b showing water and helium in the atmosphere after careful consideration of stellar contamination. Learn more about the microlensing planets in the discovery paper; details on WASP-52 b are described in this paper. Click on the planet names to go directly to their System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We've also added Spitzer transmission and eclipse spectroscopy measurements of WASP-19 b and HAT-P-7 b to the Atmospheric Spectroscopy table.
March 26, 2025
A Planet Disintegrating Around Its Bright Host Star
One of this week's five planets is orbiting its star so closely that it's disintegrating in the intense heat. BD+05 4868 A b's demise is expected to happen over the next two million years, and because the host is a bright TESS star, researchers have an opportunity to observe the end of the planet's life. Check out this Astrobites article and the discovery paper for details.
The other new planets are TOI-1266 d, LP 261-75 b, ZTF J1230-2655 b, and ZTF J1828+2308 b. We've also added new parameters for TOI-640 b, TOI-677 b, and GJ 436 b. Click on the planet names to go directly to their System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We've also added new JWST spectra for GJ 436 b to the Atmospheric Spectroscopy table, bringing our spectral holdings for this planet to 10 spectra from three space observatories!
News panel image credit: JPL-Caltech/NASA
March 20, 2025
Real and Synthetic Exoplanet Data
This week's release contains data for six real planets, and over 3 million spectra for simulated rocky planets.
Frontier Development Lab INARA Dataset
One of the teams from the 2018 FDL Astrobiology challenge has published a paper on their set of over 3 million synthetic rocky planet spectra, all of which are available on the Exoplanet Archive.
The spectra are modeled after initial Habitable Worlds Observatory-like design criteria, and provide a training set for machine-learning algorithms to efficiently perform atmospheric retrievals on real-life spectral data. The dataset joins the PyATMOS dataset, a grid of model atmospheres produced by a second team from the same FDL challenge.
Access the INARA data by selecting Frontier Development Lab Datasets from our website's Data pull-down menu, or use this direct link.
Six New Planets
This week's six new planets feature a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune found orbiting TOI-1453—a planetary system found 250 light-years away in the Draco constellation. Planet c is one of the least-dense sub-Neptunes ever discovered. Read the Star Institute media release and the discovery paper for details.
The other new planets are GJ 1289 b, TOI-4364 b, TOI-5143 c, and TOI-7041 b. There are also new parameters for Qatar-6 b and KELT-10 b. Click on their names to go directly to their System Overview page, or browse the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
March 13, 2025
Seven New Planets, Including Three More Around Barnard's Star and super-Earth GJ 3998 d!
This week's seven new planets include three found orbiting Barnard's Star, the closest single-star system to Earth. Read the University of Chicago media release and the discovery paper for details and then check out the Barnard's Star System Overview page for data on the star and its four planets. (The new planets are Barnard c, d, & e.)
Another newsy addition is GJ 3998 d, a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf, making the planet an excellent candidate for atmospheric studies. More details are in the IAC media release and the discovery paper.
The other new planets are KOI-1843.03, TOI-512 b, and TOI-2015 c. There are also new parameters for BD+00 444 b (TOI-2443 b). Access all of this week's new data in the system overview pages and in the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
News panel image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor/J. Pollard
March 6, 2025
Thank You, Radial Velocity!
This week's release was made possible by the radial velocity technique: multiple TOIs were confirmed with radial velocity follow-up. One noteworthy planet from that batch is TOI-2537 b because it partially orbits in its star's habitable zone. Also, Jovian GJ 2126 b—which has a very eccentric orbit around an M0 star—is an RV-only discovery.
Learn more about the TOI confirmations in Tala Pinto et al. and Heidari et al.; details on GJ 2126 b are described in a separate paper.
The other new planets are: TOI-2295 b & c, TOI-2328 b, TOI-2537 c, TOI-3837 b, TOI-5027 b, TOI-5110 b, and TOI-6628 b.
Click on the planet names view their System Overview pages, or browse all system parameters in the archive (including this week's new sets) with the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
News panel image credit: Fig. 20 of Heidari et al. 2025February 27, 2025
Five New Planets, Including an Extremely Close Orbiter, and an L 98-95 Spectrum
We've added five new planets and one spectrum, as well as a number of parameter updates.
One of the planets is Gl 725 A b which, at a distance of 11.4 light years, is the seventh closest known orbiting planet.
In addition we have released KOBE-1 b and c, the first planets from the KOBE project.
The last two planets are GJ 341 b, an Earth-sized planet, and K2-99 c. Click on their names to go directly to their System Overview pages, or browse all system parameters in the archive (including this week's new sets) with the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We have included parameter updates for 14 planets in four systems:
- HAT-P-11: planets b & c
- HD 191939: planets b, c, d, e, f, & g
- K2-106: planets b & c
- TOI-561: planets b, c, d, & e
There is also a new spectrum for the L 98-59 system, where volcanic activity may be driving atmosphere creation! The new spectrum can be found in the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.
News panel image credit: J. Lillo-Box
February 14, 2025
Two New Gaia Planets and TRAPPIST-1 Spectrum!
We've added Gaia-4 b and Gaia-5 b, a super-Jupiter and a brown dwarf that orbit low-mass stars—a scenario considered extremely rare and a discovery made possible by Gaia astrometry. Learn more in the media release and discovery paper.
There are also new spectra for five planets—including a spectrum from the TRAPPIST-1 system! Check out the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table for spectra from L 98-59 c, HD 95086 b, WASP-19 b, and TRAPPIST-1 b. The Observatoire de Paris has also issued a media release on the TRAPPIST-1 b spectroscopy.
News panel image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen
January 31, 2025
Three Planets Added, Including a Nearby Super-Earth Orbiting a Sun-like Star
This week's release has three new planets and one spectrum, as well as one planet demoted to false positive planet.
One of the new planets is in the HD 20794 system located just 20 light-years from Earth. HD 20794 f (published as planet d by the discovery paper) has an eccentric, 647-day orbit that crosses into the host star's habitable zone. Learn more in the media release.
The same paper includes a published refutation of HD 20794 c, which the archive has demoted to False Positive Planet. The object's new status is reflected on its System Overview page, which will continue to serve its data.
The other new planets are WASP-132 d and K2-360 c. Click on their names to go directly to their System Overview pages, or browse all system parameters in the archive (including this week's new sets) with the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We've also added a new spectrum for WASP-17 b to our Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table. (Pro Tip: You can access the table from the planet's Planetary Parameters section of its System Overview page.)
News panel image credit: Gabriel Pérez (IAC)
January 24, 2025
Jupiters, Jupiters, come get your Jupiters!
This week's release has 11 new planets. They are HD 101581 b, HD 101581 c, TOI-6038 A b, HD 73344 c, HD 73344 d, TOI-5108 b, TOI-5786 b, TOI-1295 b, TOI-2580 b, TOI-6016 b and TOI-6130 b. Click on a planet name to view its System Overview page, or use either the Planetary Systems table or its companion the Planetary Systems Composite Data table to view, filter, sort, and download data.
January 14, 2025
New Year, New Planets
In our first release of 2025, we are adding 8 new planets, multiple spectra for 1 planet, and updated parameters for 2 planets.
The new planets are TOI-6383 A b, TOI-5688 A b, TOI-4504 b, c & d, KMT-2024-BLG-1044L b, KMT-2022-BLG-2286L b, and KMT-2023-BLG-1743L b.
The systems with updated parameters are HD 113337 c and HD 38529 c.
The new data can be accessed on the System Overview pages, or browse the updates in the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.
We have added newly published JWST spectra for the hot super-Earth L 168-9 b, which can be accessed via the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Table.
