The James Webb Space Telescope photographs its first image of an exoplanet orbiting a star outside our solar system
NASA discovers that there are more than 5,000 exoplanets that exist outside of the solar system.
Scientists are trying to discover planets in the nearest galaxy, Alpha Centauri, that resembles our solar system.
Temperatures that could support life
It works by observing a dimming in the light of a star, each time an orbiting planet passes in front of it