6,000 alien worlds are scattered across the plane of our Galaxy in this brand new NASA image

This image shows 6,000 planets beyond our Solar System as scattered dots stretching across the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. It comes courtesy of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft, which launched in 2018 and has since been scanning the sky looking for distant worlds, known as exoplanets.

6,000 alien worlds are scattered across the plane of our Galaxy in this brand new NASA image. This image shows 6,000 planets beyond our Solar System as scattered dots stretching across the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. It comes courtesy of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft, which launched in 2018 and has since been scanning the sky looking for distant worlds, known as exoplanets. Nearly 6,000 coloured dots are seen in the image, revealing the locations of both confirmed exoplanets and 'candidate' exoplanets, i.e. planets still awaiting official confirmation. Comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by NASA's TESS mission, 15 and 18–19 January 2026. Credit: NASA/Daniel Muthukrishna, MIT An all-sky image of the Milky Way showing nearly 6,000 confirmed (blue) and potential (yellow) exoplanets, captured by the TESS mission between...