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How many planets have been discovered?

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How many planets have been discovered?

So far we've found thousands of exoplanets, and this number is rising fast.

The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

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NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

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artist's impression of an exoplanet

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We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight

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planet orbit

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Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

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