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NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems.

This number is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) located at the California Institute of Technology's IPAC. Currently, there are over 8,000 candidate planets awaiting ...

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

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...

It was not until the early 1990s that the existence of planets orbiting other stars was confirmed, and now 6.000 are known. This number is likely to grow.

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NASA confirms that the number of discovered exoplanets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, marking a major milestone in space research.

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.