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The year 2025 marks a milestone in exoplanet research, commemorating three decades since the groundbreaking discovery of 51 Peg b—the first planet found orbiting a Sun-like star. This seminal achievement, which earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, inaugurated an entirely new field of astronomy. Over the past thirty years, the field has evolved from initial, sporadic discoveries to the confirmation of over 6,000 exoplanets, heralding a new era of large-scale statistical studies.
In this endeavor, China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), one of the world's most powerful spectroscopic survey telescopes, plays an increasingly vital role. This talk will review the past, present, and future of exoplanet statistical research from a historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on the pivotal contributions of LAMOST. The talk will conclude with an outlook on the potential of the future China-Chile collaborative ESST telescope to further propel this exciting field forward.
