NASA Hits Major Milestone: 6,000 Confirmed Planets Beyond the Solar System
It’s official: NASA has now confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, planets outside our solar system. We’ve made this leap in just over thirty years since the first planet around a Sun-like star was verified in 1995. We’ve watched the night sky change. Each discovery adds more worlds, some small and rocky, some giant and gaseous, many unlike…