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6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

Small Steps, Giant Leaps by Katie Konans

Sep 18, 202522:12Science & Medicine

On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that the number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. In the three decades since the groundbreaking detection of exoplanet 51 Pegasi b,...

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6,000 Exoplanets and Counting is an episode from Small Steps, Giant Leaps by Katie Konans. On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that the number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. In the thre...

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Published Sep 18, 2025, 22:12 long, audio available.

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