How Many Exoplanets Are There Scientists Discover Dozens Of New Worlds
The space agency’s Exoplanet Exploration Program announced the new planets in a tweet on Monday. The vast majority of them were discovered using data from the Kepler space telescope, which retired in 2018. NASA Exoplanets tweeted that “astronomers are still finding worlds” in Kepler’s old measurements. At the time of writing, NASA listed 7,721 planetary candidates that could potentially be exoplanets, but the agency is still awaiting confirmation before it adds them to the total....