Best Exoplanet Host

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located just over four light-years away, making it our nearest stellar neighbor. It’s notable for being the host of Proxima Centauri b, an exoplanet within the habitable zone of its system. This makes it a key target for astronomers studying potentially habitable...

A young A-type star in Pictor notable for a circumstellar debris disk discovered in 1984 and hosting at least two directly imaged exoplanets.

Rho1 Cancri (55 Cancri) is a binary star about 41 light-years from Earth hosting five confirmed exoplanets, including super-Earth 55 Cancri e with an orbital period under 18 hours.

A binary star in Cancer hosting five confirmed exoplanets, including 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that completes an orbit in under 18 hours.

Epsilon Eridani is a young K-type star about 10.5 light-years away, one of the nearest stars with a confirmed debris disk and a long-studied exoplanet candidate.

Beta Gemini (Pollux) is the nearest giant star to Earth at about 34 light-years, the brightest star in Gemini, with a confirmed exoplanet (Pollux b) announced in 2006.

Pollux is an orange giant in Gemini about 34 light-years away and the nearest giant star to the Sun; it hosts a confirmed exoplanet, Pollux b.

A G-type star in Cygnus hosting Kepler-22 b, announced in 2011 as the first confirmed planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

A hot A-type star ~670 light-years away in Cygnus, hosting KELT-9b, the hottest known hot Jupiter exoplanet, whose dayside temperature exceeds 4,000 K.

One of the nearest stars to Earth at ~12.5 light-years in Aries, a dim red dwarf hosting two potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanets discovered by a German-led team in 2019.

A red dwarf ~11 light-years away in Virgo hosting Ross 128b, a potentially temperate Earth-mass exoplanet, and projected to become the Sun's nearest stellar neighbor in roughly 79,000 years.

A red dwarf star ~33 light-years away in Leo, hosting Gliese 436b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet with a comet-like hydrogen exosphere detected by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A red dwarf star ~12.4 light-years away in Canis Minor, notable for hosting two super-Earth exoplanets including GJ 273b, a habitable-zone candidate announced in 2017.

GJ 1061 is a red dwarf star about 12 light-years from Earth in Horologium with three confirmed Earth-sized exoplanets, at least two of which orbit near the habitable zone.

Tau Boötis is a yellow-white main-sequence star about 51 light-years from Earth harboring a hot Jupiter exoplanet (Tau Boötis b) discovered in 1996 by Butler and Marcy.

A red dwarf ~100 light-years away in Draco hosting TOI-1452 b, a super-Earth discovered in 2022 whose bulk density is consistent with a water-rich ocean world interior.

A red dwarf ~14.8 light-years away in Ara with a confirmed super-Earth planet (GJ 674 b) detected via radial velocity measurements and announced in 2007.

HD 28185 is a solar analog about 138 light-years from Earth with an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone, discovered in 2001 by the CORALIE spectrograph team.

Kepler-69 is a G-type star approximately 2,700 light-years away with two planets announced by Kepler in 2013, including Kepler-69c, initially studied as a potential habitable-zone candidate.

14 Herculis is a K-type main-sequence star about 59 light-years from Earth with a confirmed super-Jupiter exoplanet (14 Her b) discovered in 2002 with an orbital period of about 4.9 years.

Iota Horologii is a young Sun-like star about 57 light-years from Earth with a confirmed hot Jupiter exoplanet discovered in 1999 and an estimated age of roughly 600 million years.

GJ 3293 is a red dwarf star about 57 light-years from Earth with multiple confirmed super-Earth exoplanets detected via radial velocity measurements.

A sub-Earth-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri announced in 2022, with an estimated mass below 0.3 Earth masses and an orbital period of roughly five days.