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Exoplanets year by year
How many planets have been discovered beyond the Solar System? 6,319 confirmed, from 1992 to 2026. The table below shows the pace of the hunt, year by year.
Discoveries year by year
| Year | Planets | Dominant method | Highlight (closest of the year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 231 | Transit | GJ 887 d (10.7 light years) |
| 2025 | 245 | Transit | Proxima Cen d (4.2 light years) |
| 2024 | 260 | Transit | Barnard b (6.0 light years) |
| 2023 | 323 | Transit | HN Lib b (20.4 light years) |
| 2022 | 367 | Transit | GJ 1002 b (15.8 light years) |
| 2021 | 564 | Transit | HD 95735 c (18.5 light years) |
| 2020 | 234 | Transit | GJ 887 b (10.7 light years) |
| 2019 | 195 | Transit | eps Ind A b (11.9 light years) |
| 2018 | 308 | Transit | GJ 15 A c (11.6 light years) |
| 2017 | 152 | Transit | Ross 128 b (11.0 light years) |
| 2016 | 1,504 | Transit | Proxima Cen b (4.2 light years) |
| 2015 | 155 | Transit | Wolf 1061 b (14.0 light years) |
| 2014 | 869 | Transit | GJ 15 A b (11.6 light years) |
| 2013 | 128 | Transit | GJ 667 C c (23.6 light years) |
| 2012 | 144 | Transit | GJ 667 C b (23.6 light years) |
| 2011 | 142 | Transit | HD 20794 b (19.6 light years) |
| 2010 | 93 | Transit | GJ 876 e (15.2 light years) |
| 2009 | 87 | Radial velocity | GJ 581 e (20.5 light years) |
| 2008 | 62 | Radial velocity | GJ 832 b (16.2 light years) |
| 2007 | 52 | Radial velocity | GJ 674 b (14.8 light years) |
| 2006 | 32 | Radial velocity | GJ 849 b (28.7 light years) |
| 2005 | 36 | Radial velocity | GJ 876 d (15.2 light years) |
| 2004 | 27 | Radial velocity | GJ 436 b (31.8 light years) |
| 2003 | 22 | Radial velocity | HD 3651 b (36.3 light years) |
| 2002 | 29 | Radial velocity | 55 Cnc d (41.0 light years) |
| 2001 | 12 | Radial velocity | 47 UMa c (45.0 light years) |
| 2000 | 16 | Radial velocity | eps Eri b (10.4 light years) |
| 1999 | 13 | Radial velocity | GJ 86 b (35.2 light years) |
| 1998 | 6 | Radial velocity | GJ 876 b (15.2 light years) |
| 1997 | 1 | Radial velocity | rho CrB b (57.0 light years) |
| 1996 | 6 | Radial velocity | 55 Cnc b (41.0 light years) |
| 1995 | 1 | Radial velocity | 51 Peg b (50.4 light years) |
| 1994 | 1 | Pulsar timing | PSR B1257+12 b (1,956.9 light years) |
| 1992 | 2 | Pulsar timing | PSR B1257+12 c (1,956.9 light years) |
From 2 pulsar planets to 6,319 worlds
The list opens in 1992 with a surprise: the first two confirmed planets beyond the Solar System orbit a pulsar, the spinning corpse of an exploded star. Only in 1995 came 51 Pegasi b, the first planet around a Sun-like star, found through the wobble it causes in it (the discovery earned Mayor and Queloz the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics). For fifteen years radial velocity ruled the hunt, at a pace of dozens per year.
Then the Kepler space telescope changed the scale of the game. The spikes of 2014 (869 planets) and 2016 (1,504, the all time record) were not lucky years: they were Kepler batches validated in bulk through statistical analysis, almost all by transit. Since 2018 the baton belongs to TESS, which sweeps the whole sky for transits around nearby stars, and the count keeps adding hundreds per year. The confirmed total as of this snapshot: 6,319 planets between 1992 and 2026.
Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems table, default solutions only), snapshot of 2026-07-09. Standard acknowledgment required by the archive: 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.
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