Atlas of our Galaxy

The Galactic Atlas is a research and publishing project of the International Cosmographic Society which aims to create a map of all the known planetary systems of our galaxy.

Mapping all the known exoplanets

• Total Exoplanet Discoveries: 10,760
• Total Confirmed Exoplanets: 3,607
• Potentially Habitable Exoplanets: 51

Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are staggering: The Milky Way is estimated to contain about 400 billion stars and a minimum of 100 billion planets —and many of those could be habitable.

Searching for Earth 2.0

NASA estimates 1 billion ‘Earths’ in our galaxy alone. There are one billion rocky planets that are approximately the size of Earth and are orbiting familiar-looking, yellow-sunshine stars like our own sun in the orbital “habitable zone” where water could be liquid at the surface.

The confirmation of the first Earth-like habitable planet will be the greatest discovery of all time.

That is a billion planets where human beings, or their genetically modified descendants, as well as their dogs and cats and tomato plants, could plausibly live.