It’s official: Humans have found 6,000 planets beyond our solar system

Sep 28, 2025 | Space

The search for planets beyond our solar system commenced in 1992, marked by astronomers’ detection of two planets orbiting a pulsar. A pivotal discovery followed in 1995 when the first exoplanet circling a main sequence star was identified. The subsequent deployment of NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions dramatically accelerated this field, leading to a continuous rise in the number of confirmed exoplanets.

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