List of nearest exoplanets

There are 7,408 known <a href="/facts/Exoplanet/zjfmqfUf">exoplanets</a>, or planets outside the <a href="/facts/Solar_System/QIcLSazQ">Solar System</a> that orbit a star, as of January 26, 2024; only a small fraction of these are located in the vicinity of the Solar System. Within 10 <a href="/facts/Parsec/SwSsk57J">parsecs</a> (32.6 <a href="/facts/Light-year/IGc5NdQb">light-years</a>), there are 106 exoplanets listed as confirmed by the <a href="/facts/NASA_Exoplanet_Archive/DzzwL3Qe">NASA Exoplanet Archive</a>. Among the over 500 known stars and <a href="/facts/Brown_dwarf/fa7kr9lH">brown dwarfs</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Gliese_876/nQoPgY1J">Gliese 876</a> (15.3 light-years (ly) away), and the latest as of 2025 is a system around <a href="/facts/Barnard%27s_Star/9xrjwFXY">Barnard's Star</a> (6.0 ly). The closest exoplanets are those found orbiting the star closest to the Solar System, which is <a href="/facts/Proxima_Centauri/6vSeytbA">Proxima Centauri</a> 4.25 light-years away. The first confirmed exoplanet discovered in the Proxima Centauri system was <a href="/facts/Proxima_Centauri_b/k6nG5yrG">Proxima Centauri b</a>, in 2016. <a href="/facts/HD_219134/5ahLNGhT">HD 219134</a> (21.6 ly) has six exoplanets, the highest number discovered for any star within this range.
Most known nearby exoplanets orbit close to their stars. A majority are significantly larger than Earth, but a few have similar masses, including planets around <a href="/facts/YZ_Ceti/wg65sC43">YZ Ceti</a>, <a href="/facts/Gliese_367/7vd9GFwv">Gliese 367</a>, Proxima Centauri, and <a href="/facts/Barnard%27s_Star/9xrjwFXY">Barnard's Star</a> which may be less massive than Earth. Several confirmed exoplanets are hypothesized to be <a href="/facts/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets/QEgH3yuF">potentially habitable</a>, with Proxima Centauri b and <a href="/facts/GJ_1002_b/0S7w2udJ">GJ 1002 b</a> (15.8 ly) considered among the most likely candidates. The <a href="/facts/International_Astronomical_Union/GMFPImXo">International Astronomical Union</a> has assigned proper names to some known extrasolar bodies, including nearby exoplanets, through the <a href="/facts/NameExoWorlds/NpRMt4m0">NameExoWorlds</a> project. Planets named in the 2015 event include the planets around <a href="/facts/Epsilon_Eridani/5LMmzaXl">Epsilon Eridani</a> (10.5 ly) and <a href="/facts/Fomalhaut/eQ4LC29E">Fomalhaut</a>, while planets named in the 2022 event include those around <a href="/facts/Gliese_436/9QnqzfQ6">Gliese 436</a>, <a href="/facts/Gliese_486/Lge2unoC">Gliese 486</a>, and <a href="/facts/Gliese_367/7vd9GFwv">Gliese 367</a>.

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List of nearest exoplanets