NASA confirms milestone discovery of 5000th planet

By Brad Tucker
March 27 2022 - 5:30am
An impression of an Earth-like exoplanet. Picture: Shutterstock
An impression of an Earth-like exoplanet. Picture: Shutterstock

This week, NASA announced that the 5,000th exoplanet had been confirmed. An exoplanet is an extra-solar planet, a planet orbiting around another star, not our sun in our solar system.

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