kosmos: Planetary system

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There are 6,534 known exoplanets, or planets outside the Solar System that orbit a star, brown dwarf or stellar remnant, as of October 8, 2026; only a small fraction of these are located in the vicinity of the Solar System. Within 10 parsecs (32.6 light-years), there are 106 exoplanets listed as confirmed by the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Among the over 500 known stars and brown dwarfs within 10 parsecs, around 60 have been confirmed to have planetary systems; 51 stars in this range are visible to the naked eye, eight of which have planetary systems. The first report of an exoplanet within this range was in 1998 for a planet orbiting around Gliese 876 (15.3 light-years (ly) away), and the late…

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These are lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets. As of 8 October 2026, there are 6,445 confirmed exoplanets in 4,834 planetary systems, with 1,070 systems having more than one planet. There are an additional 1,977 potential exoplanets from the Kepler space telescope's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 97…

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Estimating Physical Properties of Confirmed Exoplanets: I. Calculation of essential planetary properties-Possible M-R cataloging of exoplanets. The discovery of extrasolar planets outside our solar system and around other stars is now well underway. In the presented paper, calculations of some physical properties for confirmed exoplanets have been done. We have estimated physical properties such as the semi-major axis for potentially habitable exoplanets, the mass of planets by applying Kepler's third law around the mass of solar, Jupiter, and Earth-mass, stellar luminosity, habitability zone for the inner center and outer regions, radial velocity amplitude, planetary equilibrium temperatur…

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A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy.. The Galaxy's most common known planetary systems have several Earth-to-Neptune-size planets in compact orbits 1 . At small orbital separations, larger planets are less common than their smaller counterparts by an order of magnitude. The young star V1298 Tau hosts one such compact planetary system, albeit with four planets that are uncommonly large (5 to 10 Earth radii) 2,3 . The planets form a chain of near-resonances that result in transit-timing variations of several hours. Here we present a multi-year campaign to characterize this system with transit-timing variations, a method insensitive to the intense magnetic ac…

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Uncovering the rapidly evolving orbits of the dynamic TOI-201 system.. Studying planetary interactions in exoplanet systems informs theories of planet formation and evolution, providing essential context for understanding our own solar system. We combine spectroscopy, transit photometry, transit timing variations, and astrometry to characterize the TOI-201 system. The cotransiting system consists of a super-Earth, warm Jupiter, and massive companion at 5.8-, 53-, and 2900-day orbital periods, respectively. We perform dynamical simulations to study the past and future of the system. von-Zeipel-Kozai-Lidov oscillations emerge as the most plausible scenario to explain the outer companion's hig…

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Spectral-type Dependence of Habitable Zone Classification Differences in Confirmed Exoplanets: A Systematic Comparison of Temperature-dependent and Constant-flux Models. <p><span>Habitable zone (HZ) boundaries are commonly estimated using either the temperature-dependent formulation of Kopparapu et al. (2013, 2014) or simplified constant-flux models that neglect stellar effective temperature. Although both approaches are widely used in exoplanet studies, their influence on habitable-zone classification across the confirmed exoplanet population has not been systematically quantified. In this study, we compare these two HZ formulations using a dataset of 1,347 confirmed exoplanets with availa…

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