Does Earth have more trees than the Milky Way has stars? Yes.

• ✓Crowther et al. 2015, Nature — global tree count ~3.04 trillion
• ✓NASA — Milky Way ~100-400 billion stars

You've always been told the stars are beyond counting — that the Milky Way is so vast, nothing on Earth could rival it. That's wrong. There are more trees on Earth — roughly 3 trillion — than there are stars in the Milky Way, which NASA estimates at 100 to 400 billion. Three trillion trees. That means for every single star in our galaxy, Earth holds somewhere between seven and thirty trees. We live on a planet so densely forested that it outnumbers the stars above us — and most people will never hear that fact. The universe feels infinite, but right now, under your feet and over your head, Earth is quietly winning.