Now, 30 years later, the list of known exoplanets has just topped 5,000, according to NASA . This dazzling abundance and variety of worlds has come into view with the aid of ever-more sophisticated space telescopes. There are “hot Jupiters” that orbit scorchingly close to their stars and beefed-up versions of our planet known as “super-Earths.” Rogue planets, unmoored from their stars, wander interstellar space. It could be a rocky world or a water world,” he said in an email. “So when I look out into the night sky, I don’t just imagine that someone else is looking back.

Source: Forbes April 04, 2022 11:10 UTC