List of nearest exoplanets


There are known exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system that orbit a star, as of ; only a small fraction of these are located in the vicinity of the Solar System. Within, there are 97 exoplanets listed as confirmed by the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Among the over 400 known stars within 10 parsecs, around 60 have been confirmed to have planetary systems; 51 stars in this range are visible to the naked eye, nine of which have planetary systems.
The first report of an exoplanet within this range was in 1998 for a planet orbiting around Gliese 876, and the latest as of 2020 is one around AU Microscopii. The closest exoplanet found is Proxima Centauri b, which was confirmed in 2016 to orbit Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. HD 219134 has six exoplanets, the highest number discovered for any star within this range.
Most known nearby exoplanets orbit close to their star and have highly eccentric orbits. A majority are significantly larger than Earth, but a few have similar masses, including two planets which may be less massive than Earth. Several confirmed exoplanets are hypothesized to be potentially habitable, with Proxima Centauri b and three around Gliese 667 C considered the most likely candidates. The International Astronomical Union took a public survey in 2015 about renaming some known extrasolar bodies, including the planets around Epsilon Eridani and Fomalhaut.

Exoplanets within 10 parsecs

Host star systemHost star systemHost star systemHost star systemCompanion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Companion exoplanet Notes and additional planetary observations
NameDistance

Apparent
magnitude
Mass

Label
Mass
Radius

Semi-major axis

Orbital period

Eccentricity
Inclination

Discovery yearNotes and additional planetary observations
Sun°01'0.38290.387'0.205
Sun°01'11'0.0167
Sun°01''5.200.0488
Proxima Centauri#4.244111.130.123b0.04860.109~133?20161 candidate
Proxima Centauri#4.244111.130.123c1.4891,9280.0413320201 candidate
Barnard's Star5.9580.144b0.4302320.042018
Wolf 359#7.8950.09c0.0180.152019
Wolf 359#7.8950.09b1.8450.042019
Lalande 211858.3070.46b0.0680.042017
Epsilon Eridani10.4460.833.390.50~25?20001 inferred planet and a disc
Lacaille 9352#10.7210.503b0.0670.032019
Lacaille 9352#10.7210.503c0.1190.032019
Lacaille 9352#10.7210.503d0.1750.042019
Ross 12811.0070.168b0.04960.122017
Struve 2398 B#11.4900.248b0.2610.062019
Struve 2398 B#11.4900.248c0.4280.032019
Groombridge 34 A#11.6180.38b0.0720.094~61?2014
Groombridge 34 A#11.6180.38c5.47,6000.27~61?2018
Tau Ceti#11.7530.780.1330.0620172 retracted and 1 candidate
Tau Ceti#11.7530.780.2430.2320172 retracted and 1 candidate
Tau Ceti#11.7530.780.5380.1820172 retracted and 1 candidate
Tau Ceti#11.7530.781.330.1620172 retracted and 1 candidate
Epsilon Indi A11.8690.762b11.550.2664.252002Not confirmed until 2018
Gliese 1061#11.9800.113b0.021<0.312019two solutions for d's orbit
Gliese 1061#11.9800.113c0.035<0.292019two solutions for d's orbit
Gliese 1061#11.9800.113d0.052<0.542019two solutions for d's orbit
YZ Ceti#12.10812.10.130b0.01560.020171 candidate
YZ Ceti#12.10812.10.130c0.02090.0420171 candidate
YZ Ceti#12.10812.10.130d0.02760.0320171 candidate
Luyten's Star#12.19911.940.29c0.03650.122017
Luyten's Star#12.19911.940.29b0.0900.032017
Luyten's Star#12.19911.940.29d0.7120.172019
Luyten's Star#12.19911.940.29e0.8490.032019
Teegarden's Star#12.4960.08b0.025202019
Teegarden's Star#12.4960.08c0.044302019
Kapteyn's Star#12.8290.280.3110.0720141 disputed candidate
Wolf 1061#14.0460.250.03750.032015
Wolf 1061#14.0460.250.08900.032015
Wolf 1061#14.0460.250.4210.022015
Gliese 83.1#14.5840.14c0.0160.092019
Gliese 83.1#14.5840.14d0.4060.152019
Gliese 83.1#14.5840.14b0.8810.222019
Gliese 67414.8390.35b0.0390.232007
Gliese 687#14.8400.41b0.1630.032014
Gliese 687#14.8400.41c1.1930.032019
Gliese 876#15.2500.33d0.02080.1259.52005
Gliese 876#15.2500.33c0.1330.00159.52000
Gliese 876#15.2500.33b0.2130.00159.51998
Gliese 876#15.2500.33e0.3420.1859.52010
Gliese 832#16.1940.450.1640.062014
Gliese 832#16.1940.45b3.670.062008
AD Leonis16.1970.41b0.0250.032019
40 Eridani A16.3860.84b0.2240.04~72?2018
Gliese 3323#17.53312.20.164b0.03282017
Gliese 3323#17.53312.20.164c0.1262017
Gliese 251#18.2040.372b0.02042017
Gliese 251#18.2040.372c0.9746070.032019
LP 816-6018.3110.23b93.92019
Gliese 205#18.5920.63b0.10916.90.112019
Gliese 205#18.5920.63c0.6892710.042019
Gliese 229 A#18.7770.58c0.3390.192020Ab not confirmed until 2020.
Gliese 229 A#18.7770.58b0.8980.102014Ab not confirmed until 2020.
Gliese 752 A19.2860.46b0.3380.032018
Gliese 75419.2890.18b0.2770.032019
Gliese 588#19.2980.46b0.0495.810.042019
Gliese 588#19.2980.46c0.5302060.062019
82 G. Eridani#19.5820.85b0.12120112 candidates
82 G. Eridani#19.5820.85c0.20420112 candidates
82 G. Eridani#19.5820.85d0.35020112 candidates
82 G. Eridani#19.5820.85e0.50920172 candidates
Gliese 78420.0830.5b0.0590.052019
Gliese 55520.3700.29b0.7270.042019
Gliese 581#20.5450.31e0.02820.0~45?20092 disputed candidates and a disc
Gliese 581#20.5450.31b0.04060.0~45?20052 disputed candidates and a disc
Gliese 581#20.5450.31c0.0720.0~45?20072 disputed candidates and a disc
Gliese 338 B20.6587.00.64b0.1410.112020
Gliese 62521.11410.20.30b0.07842017
HD 219134#21.3060.78b1.600.038885.0620151 candidate, 2 dubious planets
HD 219134#21.3060.781.510.06587.2820151 candidate, 2 dubious planets
HD 219134#21.3060.780.235~87?20151 candidate, 2 dubious planets
HD 219134#21.3060.783.11~87?20151 candidate, 2 dubious planets
Gliese 88022.3990.59b0.1870.132019
LTT 1445 A22.4090.26b1.350.03810.1689.472019
Gliese 39322.9380.41b0.0550.032019
Gliese 667 C#23.6320.330.0490.13~52?20095 dubious candidates
Gliese 667 C#23.6320.330.12510.03~52?20115 dubious candidates
Gliese 51424.8510.53b0.09715.00.052019
Gliese 30026.4690.26b0.0500.292019
Gliese 68626.6120.42b0.0970.042019
61 Virginis#27.7410.95b0.0502~77?2009a debris disc
61 Virginis#27.7410.95c0.2180.14~77?2009a debris disc
61 Virginis#27.7410.95d0.4760.35~77?2009a debris disc
CD Ceti28.0800.161b0.018502020
Gliese 785#28.6990.78b0.320.132010
Gliese 785#28.6990.78c1.182011
Gliese 849#28.7110.49b2.260.052006
Gliese 849#28.7110.49c4.820.0872006
Gliese 433#29.5720.48b0.0620.042009
Gliese 433#29.5720.48d0.1780.072020
Gliese 433#29.5720.48c4.820.122012
Gliese 332530.1090.27b0.0710.032019
HD 102365 A30.3740.85b0.460.342010
Gliese 357#30.8030.34b1.170.0353.930.0288.922019
Gliese 357#30.8030.34c0.0619.130.04~89?2019
Gliese 357#30.8030.34d0.20455.70.03~89?2019
Gliese 176#30.8790.45b0.0660.0820071 dubious planet
Gliese 176#30.8790.45c0.14628.60.022019-
Gliese 47930.9120.43b0.07411.30.032019
Gliese 3512#30.9490.123b0.3382040.442019
Gliese 3512#30.9490.123c>1.2>13902019
AU Microscopii31.7190.50b4.200.0660.10~9020201 candidate
Gliese 43631.8200.41b4.330.02802.640.1585.820041 candidate
Gliese 4932.1450.57b0.10617.30.032019

Excluded objects

Unlike for bodies within our Solar System, there is no clearly established method for officially recognizing an exoplanet. According to the International Astronomical Union, an exoplanet should be considered confirmed if it has not been disputed for five years after its discovery. There have been examples where the existence of exoplanets has been proposed, but even after follow-up studies their existence is still considered doubtful by some astronomers. Such cases include: Alpha Centauri, LHS 288, and Gliese 682. There are also some instances where proposed exoplanets were later disproved by subsequent studies, such as candidates around Teegarden's star, Van Maanen 2, Groombridge 1618, and VB 10.
The Working Group on Extrasolar Planets of the International Astronomical Union adopted in 2003 a working definition on the upper limit for what constitutes a planet: not being massive enough to sustain thermonuclear fusion of deuterium. Some studies have calculated this to be somewhere around 13 times the mass of Jupiter, and therefore objects more massive than this are usually classified as brown dwarfs. Some proposed candidate exoplanets were later shown to be massive enough to fall above the threshold, and are likely brown dwarfs, as was the case for: SCR 1845-6357 B, SDSS J1416+1348 B, and WISE 1217+1626 B.
Excluded from the current list are known examples of potential free-floating sub-brown dwarfs, or "rogue planets", which are bodies that are too small to undergo fusion yet they do not revolve around a star. Known such examples include: WISE 0855–0714, UGPS 0722-05, WISE 1541−2250, and SIMP J01365663+0933473.

Statistics

Planetary systems

Distance
№ of known
star systems
№ of known
stars
№ of stars
hosting known
exoplanets
Percentage of
stars hosting
exoplanets
13133%
811327%
10–1531431637%
15–2057771317%
20–2555781114%
25–32.6?~20016~8%
Total>41360<14.5%

Exoplanets

Orbital radiusNotes
80Mercury orbits at 0.39 AU
0.4–1.0 AU16Earth orbits at 1.0 AU
1.0–5 AU11Earth orbits at 1.0 AU
2Jupiter orbits at 5.2 AU

Orbital eccentricityNotes
15Earth's is 0.0167
0.02–0.2078Earth's is 0.0167
0.02–0.2078Mercury's is 0.205
14Mercury's is 0.205