Exoplanet

Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and the first detection around a main-sequence star was in 1995. A different planet, first detected in 1988, was confirmed in 2003. In 2016, it was recognized that the first possible evidence of an exoplanet had been noted in 1917, a precovery. As of 20 August 2026, there are 6,354 confirmed exoplanets in 4,756 planetary systems, with 1,060 systems having more than one planet. There are many methods of detecting exoplanets. Transit photometry and Doppler spectroscopy have found the most, but these methods suffer from a clear observational bias favoring the detection of large planets close to the star. About 1 in 5 Sun-like stars are estimated to have an "Earth-sized" planet in the habitable zone.

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• Entity:  Infobox

• Wikidata description:  Any Planet Beyond The Solar System
• Wikidata label:  Exoplanet
• Wikidata aliases:  Exoplanet, Extrasolar Planet, Exosolar Planet

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