"NASA Discovers 6 New Exoplanets, Surpassing 5,500 Milestone"

NASA has confirmed the existence of over 5,500 exoplanets beyond our solar system, including small rocky worlds like Earth and gas giants larger than Jupiter. The recent addition of six new exoplanets brings the total number of confirmed discoveries to 5,502. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and flagship space telescopes like Spitzer, Hubble, and the James Webb Space Telescope have played crucial roles in detecting and studying these distant worlds. Some exoplanets orbit two stars or the remnants of dead stars.