More than 5000 planets discovered outside our solar system | Abroad

The first exoplanet was found in 1992. The counter now stands at 5005 confirmed planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Some are small and rocky like Earth and other exoplanets are gas giants, much larger than Jupiter. There are also planets that revolve around two stars. In addition, there are thousands of potential planets. Scientists have picked up signals and suspect that those exoplanets exist, but there is no definitive and conclusive proof yet.

The actual number of planets in the universe will be much higher. In our Milky Way alone there are at least 100 billion stars and there are hundreds of billions of galaxies like the Milky Way. All those stars in all those systems can have planets with them.

Our solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

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