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How many planets have been discovered?

How many planets have been discovered?

13 July 2020

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

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

7 November 2018

On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe

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