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SWEEPS-11 is a Hot Jupiter extrasolar planet, orbiting the star SWEEPS J175902.67-291153.5 located around 27,727 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius. This makes SWEEPS-11, along with SWEEPS-04, the most distant extrasolar planets that have been confirmed. The planet was found in 2006 by the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) program. It was found using the transit method.

The planet has a mass 9.7 times that of Jupiter, and a radius of 1.13 times that of Jupiter. The planet orbits extremely close to its host star, completing an orbit in around 1.8 days, or just 43 hours on Earth.

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