After Discovering 6,000 Exoplanets, Researchers May Have Found the First Exomoon
Science > Space After Discovering 6,000 Exoplanets, Researchers May Have Found the First Exomoon The moon is about the size of Jupiter, and it orbits a brown dwarf instead of a regular planet. Joe Hindy Joe Hindy Read full bio July 25, 2026, 4:21 pm ET 3 min read A brown dwarf isn't a star or a planet, so can it even have a moon? NASA Humans discovered the first exoplanet in 1992 and have since found approximately 6,000 other planets from outside our solar system.
- ▪Science > Space After Discovering 6,000 Exoplanets, Researchers May Have Found the First Exomoon The moon is about the size of Jupiter, and it orbits a brown dwarf instead of a regular planet.
- ▪Joe Hindy Joe Hindy Read full bio July 25, 2026, 4:21 pm ET 3 min read A brown dwarf isn't a star or a planet, so can it even have a moon?
- ▪NASA Humans discovered the first exoplanet in 1992 and have since found approximately 6,000 other planets from outside our solar system.
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Science > Space After Discovering 6,000 Exoplanets, Researchers May Have Found the First Exomoon The moon is about the size of Jupiter, and it orbits a brown dwarf instead of a regular planet. Joe Hindy Joe Hindy Read full bio July 25, 2026, 4:21 pm ET 3 min read A brown dwarf isn't a star or a planet, so can it even have a moon? NASA Humans discovered the first exoplanet in 1992 and have since found approximately 6,000 other planets from outside our solar system. Not once have those researchers found a moon orbiting any of those planets, however. That may have changed with the recent discovery of the first moon-like object in another solar system. The findings were published in a recent study.
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