• Question: How many planets are there that we know of and how many do you think our undiscovered?

    Asked by Grace to Anna, George, Rob, Stefan on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 20 Nov 2014:


      As of today we know of 1850 planets. We think that there are as many as 40 billion Earth like planets in the habitable zone – so it seems like there are trillions of planets undetected – just in our galaxy (of which there are about 100 billion in the universe). Wow.

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