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No one knows for sure.

If we take our current solar system and extrapolate it to the number of stars and galaxies in the Universe then we have about 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible planets.

The number of "known" planets is increasing daily but it will be millions, possibly billions of years till we have a better estimate.

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