Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has gazed up into the stars in search for answers and meaning, whilst exploring the galaxy and discovering new worlds, mankind’s ultimate endeavor. What else lies out there in the vast Cosmos? Perhaps some other extraterrestrial being millions of light-years away looks back at us and wonders the same question: does intelligent life exist outside our beloved planet, and if so, what implications does that carry? The Babylonians of the 7th Century BC were the first civilization on Earth to have some general notion of what a planet was, being able to observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with the naked eye. During the medieval European renaissance, the scientific revolution and invention of the telescope redefined the concept of a planet. The heliocentric model brought forth by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler gave humanity a deeper understanding of our Solar System, and by the 19th Century, several other celestial objects became classified as planets, though further progress in astronomy gave us the total complete count for our planetary neighborhood, with the final addition of Pluto in 1930. In 1988, the first scientific detection of an exoplanet was recorded and confirmed in 1992, opening the exoplanet flood gates for the next two decades. In 2002, The HARPS was installed on ESO’s 3.6m telescope at Chile’s La Silla Observatory, to date lays claim for over 130 exoplanet discoveries while the newly retired Kepler Space Observatory launched in 2009 is responsible for over 2000 exoplanet discoveries. Additional planet hunting technologies continue developing and launching into space, including NASA’s TESS and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, further augmenting past discoveries and paving the way for new ones. As of the year 2019, 4,048 planets have been accounted for, confirmed to exist in the Milky Way Galaxy in 3,022 star systems, 656 of these systems having more than one planet. Of all these floating orbs, 49 of them lie in the habitable zone of their corresponding stars, which means they each have the potential to harbor life, and the number continues to grow.