NEID Discovers a Potentially Earth-like Exoplanet That Could Be Imaged by Next-Generation Telescopes

Original source: https://neid.psu.edu/2025/10/23/gj251c/

Today, the NEID Science Team, alongside the Science Team for NEID’s sister spectrograph HPF, announced the discovery of the exoplanet GJ 251c. GJ 251c is a potentially terrestrial-mass exoplanet in the liquid-water habitable zone of a very nearby M dwarf, GJ 251. In fact, the star is so close to the Solar System that it is an excellent candidate to be directly imaged by upcoming 30-meter telescopes.

The full story of this discovery is available on the HPF Science Blog. A research article containing the technical details was also published today in The Astronomical Journal, in a paper led by NEID Science Team member Corey Beard.