Nearest Exoplanets to Earth
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Nearest Exoplanets to EarthProxima Centauri b and d are the nearest known exoplanets, 4.24 light-years away around the Sun's closest stellar neighbour. Barnard's Star follows at 5.96 light-years with four planets: b, which NASA's archive dates to 2024, and c, d and e from 2025. Lalande 21185 is next at 8.31 light-years with two planets, then a gap opens to Epsilon Eridani b at 10.45 light-years, the only planet on the list discovered before 2014. The other 16 planets crowd between 10.7 and 12 light-years, around GJ 887, Ross 128, Gl 725 B, Gl 725 A, GJ 15 A, Tau Ceti, Epsilon Indi A and GJ 1061. The 25 planets orbit just 12 stars, so planets sharing a star share one distance, and eight of them carry a 2025 or 2026 discovery year. Every one was found by the radial-velocity method, which measures the small wobble a planet causes in its star rather than seeing the planet itself. The list counts only planets the NASA Exoplanet Archive treats as confirmed. Distances are converted from the archive's parallax for each star; for Lalande 21185 and Gl 725 B the archive's own distance column gives 18.5 and 22.3 light-years, which contradicts that parallax, while the parallax figure agrees with independent listings such as Wikipedia's 8.30 light-years for Lalande 21185.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- NASA Exoplanet Archive, Planetary Systems Composite Parameters
- Coverage
- 25 entities · 25 observations
- Measure
- Distance from Earth (light-years)
- Last updated
- 14 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
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