Statistics

Explore data from 6,107 confirmed exoplanets and 4,554 host stars sourced from NASA's Exoplanet Archive.

The charts below reveal trends in exoplanet discovery, from the dramatic acceleration of detections since the launch of the Kepler and TESS space telescopes, to the dominance of the transit method which accounts for the vast majority of confirmed discoveries. The mass-radius relationship chart shows how exoplanets cluster into distinct categories: compact rocky worlds, volatile-rich Neptune-like planets, and massive gas giants. Use these visualizations to explore how our understanding of planetary systems has evolved over three decades of discovery.