NewsNASA’s confirmed exoplanet count reaches 6,000
NASA’s tracked count of confirmed exoplanets reached 6,000 in September 2025. The agency does not designate a single planet as the 6,000th.
Event / data period: 2025-09-17
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IllustrationNASA’s count is updated as discoveries confirmed by scientists worldwide are added. It includes confirmed planets, not candidate signals.
The agency expects Gaia and the future Roman Space Telescope to find additional candidates, which would need follow-up confirmation. The milestone is a catalogue count, not the total number of planets in the galaxy.
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Reported indicators
Selected numerical indicators for the scope and period defined by the source.
- Confirmed exoplanets in NASA tally
- 6,000 planets
- 2025-09-17 · Observed
Methodology
Confirmed-planet total in NASA Exoplanet Science Institute’s catalogue at announcement; the count is continuously updated.
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