NASA's tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...
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We've officially found 6,000 exoplanets, NASA says: 'We're entering the next great chapter of exploration'

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...
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Astronomers’ Exoplanet Haul Tops 6,000 Alien Worlds

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...
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NASA Confirms: 6,000 Planets Beyond Our Solar System Discovered

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

NASA confirms 6,000 alien planets detected outside our solar system

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Life on Mars: What we know after NASA's announcement

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

Nasa has discovered 6,000 worlds beyond our Solar System

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...
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Could a Mars crater have once hosted life? NASA's Perseverance rover finds more evidence it's possible

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...
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NASA estimates we have 6,000 planets outside our solar system

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

New NASA mission to reveal Earth's invisible 'halo'

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...