Unlabeled

Planets around other stars by year of discovery, running total, 1992–2025

2016 alone added 1,504 planets, 1,276 of them found by the Kepler space telescope. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 6,090 discovered by the end of 2025.

What does this axis measure?
What does this axis measure?
Planets around other stars by year of discovery, running total, 1992–2025: 34 points, a line chart.
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The data: 34 points
YearKnown exoplanets (count)
19922
19932
19943
19954
199610
199711
199817
199930
200046
200158
200287
2003109
2004136
2005172
2006204
2007256
2008318
2009405
2010498
2011639
2012783
2013911
20141,783
20151,938
20163,442
20173,594
20183,902
20194,096
20204,330
20214,894
20225,261
20235,584
20245,844
20256,090
Source
NASA Exoplanet Archive (Christiansen et al. 2025, doi:10.3847/PSJ/ade3c2). This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. Planets counted by year of discovery and added up by Unlabeled.
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No licence stated; acknowledgement requested (exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/acknowledge.html)
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