What is a exoplanet?

What exactly is an extrasolar planet? Also known as a exoplanet? A exoplanet is a planet that is orbiting a different star. Basically a planet that is not in our solar system. 1st discovered and confirmed in the early 1990's. Since the 1st confirmed discovery of a exoplanet beyond our solar system scientists and amateur sky gazers had found approximately 30 exoplanets up to the year 2000. From the beginning of the year 2000 until know more then 200 exoplanets have been found and confirmed. The number just keeps growing, our technology keeps getting better, and we will soon find an exoplanet that has all the right ingredients to harness life. As of June 2008 there approximately 294 exoplanets. We are strongly guessing there are many more exoplanets out there then stars considering we have found many stars that harness many exoplanets in their solar system. I'm willing to bet that a star 5 times the size of our sun could have about 40 exoplanets orbiting it, maybe a 1000 moons, now, here in our milky way galaxy we are guessing theres a couple hundred billion stars......half of these stars or more is highly probable of having planets and moons orbiting it. o does life exist beyond earth ??? For certain just not proven YET. Okay, over a hundred billion stars in our milky way galaxy, just a galaxy, average sized, out of how many galaxies? Add another hundred billion just to be safe... So how many exoplanets to you think could be out there? I am pretty sure the number doesn't exist unless you are a super math nerd that knows number amounts beyond kazillions ? lol. So if life out there on a distant exoplanet in a different galaxy? YES. Will we ever prove it in our life time? Probably not. Will we discover an exoplanet that harnesses the ingredients that could support extraterrestrial life in our milky way? More then likely in our lifetime we will...but communicating with them is another story......for now...lets just keep our eyes open for any new exoplanets .....