NASA confirms 5,000 exoplanets beyond our own solar system

NASA discovers that there are more than 5,000 exoplanets that exist outside of the solar system.

In representation of 30-years of NASA's journey of discovery led by space telescopes, the space agnecy has confirmed that count of exoplanets outside of our own solar system to be more than 5,000.

The planetary odometer added 65 new exoplanets to the list of NASA's Exoplanet Archive, recording exoplanet discoveries appearing in scientific papers and confirmed by analytical techniques. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Labortory, some of the exoplanets are believed to rocky like Earch, and some are hotter and as giants bigger than Jupiter.

Science lead for the archive and a research scientist with NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, says that it's just not only a number but that "Each one of them is a new world, a brand-new planet."

In 1992 scientists discovered a neutron star called Pulsar that was a "a rapidly spinning stellar corpse" pulsing with milisecond bursts of searing radiation. Scientists measured pulse timing to discover new planets in orbit. Alexander Wolszczan, lead author of the paper that dicovered the first exoplanet, believes that this is an era of discovery that will go beyond just adding new names to the list of planet names. He strongly asserts that "it is inevitable that we’ll find some kind of life somewhere – most likely of some primitive kind."