An artist’s impression of a star with two planets transiting across it. Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI).
Joel Kontinen
How many
planets are there? A recent survey says that there might be some 10, 000. This
is according to a NASA research. But we do now know how many can harbour life, as
only God can give it.
Astronomers
have identified more than 10,000 candidate planets in data from a NASA
telescope, the most ever found in a single life.
NASA’s
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is tasked with looking at stars
across the sky for planets in orbit, known as exoplanets. It identifies these
exoplanets by looking for brief dips in the brightness of the light reaching
Earth from each star – a sign that an exoplanet orbiting the star has passed in
front of it.
Source:
Jonathan O’Callaghan 2026 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data | New Scientist 27 April
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