Cosmic Milestone: Total Tally of Confirmed Exoplanets—Worlds Beyond Solar System—Breach 5,000 | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com - The Weather Channel

The NASA archive considers only the exoplanet discoveries published in the scientific papers with results obtained from multiple detection methods or analytical techniques. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

Astronomers discovered the first-ever exoplanet in the early 1990s. Since then, within decades, the count has gone up exponentiallyfrom tens to hundreds to thousands. This month, in a significant mil… [+3744 chars]

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