Which telescopes have found the most exoplanets?

NASA's Kepler space telescope found 2,787 confirmed exoplanets, more than any other, and 549 more on K2, the second mission it flew after a breakdown in 2013. NASA's TESS, launched in 2018, comes next with 936 as of September 2026. "Multiple Observatories" means several shared the discovery.

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Source and date

Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive, Planetary Systems Composite Data
License: Public domain (NASA data); this research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, operated by Caltech under contract with NASA
Data as of: September 25, 2026
Published: September 25, 2026

The data

Telescope or observatory	Confirmed exoplanets found
Kepler	2,787
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)	936
K2	549
Multiple Observatories	355
La Silla Observatory	309
W. M. Keck Observatory	193
KMTNet	144
SuperWASP	122
OGLE	112
HATSouth	73
Haute-Provence Observatory	69
HATNet	67