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    Scientists may have found a planet outside of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time

    While researchers have found more than 4,000 planets in our own galaxy, this is the first time anyone has found what could be a planet that exists outside the Milky Way.
    by Sharon Pruitt-Young Oct 26, 2021 1 minute
    In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 10, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

    We may be one step closer to understanding the unknown parts of our universe.

    Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope have detected what appears to be a planet in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way for the first on Monday.

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