Learn more about the Anglo-Australian Observatory's research that focuses on exploring 200 nearby stars.
Explains the project and its search for numerous extrasolar planets. Includes results to date and a comparison of other search methods.
Access a comprehensive listing of articles and features pertaining to the discovery and research of extrasolar planets. Includes newsgroups.
Aims to improve the resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses, and to separate dim objects from nearby bright objects.
Study a history of the search for extrasolar planets. Learn about the findings and the future implications of the search.
Experience the beauty of space through these paintings of extrasolar planets by artist Lynette Cook. Also features photos of botany.
Space mission dedicated to stellar sismology and thestudy of extrasolar planets. Study an overview of its research methods and find references.
Guide for amateurs to extrasolar planets and their detection. Learn about the problems involved in the search and the technologies used.
Provides a general overview of Extrasolar Planet detection, several diagrams highlighting the process and results of recent testing.
View a diagram and general information highlighting the discovery of three extrasolar planets detected orbiting Upsilon Andromedae.
Covers the efforts at Haute-Provence Observatory to locate extrasolar planetary objects. Includes a description of the telescope and detector.
Continuously-updated collection of scientific publications by extrasolar planet researchers.
Private company searches for new planets. Read reports outlining select projects, and see images and movies of new discoveries.
Astrometric satellite designed to determine the positions, distances and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood.
Check out the University of Geneva's extrasolar planet search programs. Features the new discoveries and survey details.
Learn about the GEST mission, view feature articles on it and click through a project preview.
Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle spectrometer helps in the detection of extra-solar planets. Includes details of a multiple planetary system.
Reviews the use of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in a radial velocity search for extrasolar planets. Includes an instrument summary.
View a chart of the 47 known planetary systems around main sequence stars. Features the geocentric coordinates and discovery facts.
Observatory boasts instrumentation for optical and infrared imaging and spectroscopy. Explore current research and recent publications.
Project searches for evidence of extrasolar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique. Find related data and papers.
Guide to the micrometer infrared astronomical camera at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Check out its extrasolar planet discoveries.
Introduces a branch of astronomy which focuses on the composition and behavior of solid bodies in space.
August, 2001 article reports on the discovery of a solar system similar to our own in the familiar constellation known as the Big Dipper or Ursa Major.
Read this excerpt from a 1999 New York Times article on seventeen nearby stars that could possibly lead to the discovery of new planets.
Transcript of a 1996 interview with Dr. Geoffrey Marcy on the discovery of two extrasolar planets and the possibility of life on them.
Offers an account of the latest extrasolar planet discoveries and theorizes about the possibility of the existence of another Earth-like planet.
Learn more about worlds outside our galaxy with this catalog of extrasolar planets. Features include images and astronomy links.
Covers the puzzling findings regarding the formation and evolution of a group of massive planets that orbit stars near the solar system.
October 2000 report on a controversial study which found that nearly half of extrasolar planets may be either lightweight stars or brown dwarfs.
Meet San Francisco State University's extrasolar planet hunters Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butle. Learn how they use the Doppler technique.
Geneva Observatory research program conducting a radial velocity search for extrasolar planets. Learn about its discoveries.
Provides up to date news articles on research and findings involving the study of planets outside of our solar system.
International team of astronomers discovers eight new extrasolar planets, at least two of which have circular orbits reminiscent of the planets in the solar system.
Amateur extrasolar planet search project features software downloads, research instructions and a layout of the spectograph.
Exoplanet project at the High Altitude Observatory. Learn about search methods, the instruments used and the project's current status.
Explore precise time-series photometry and its use in the detection extrasolar giant planets. Includes an instrument overview and diagrams.
Project dedicated to long-term photometric monitoring of approximately 75 solar-duplicate stars. Find specifications and an observing menu.
Group of collaborators searching for transits of extrasolar planets. Features an overview of the transit method and project news.
Research group uses microlensing, transits and Doppler tomography techniques with the goal of discovering and characterizing extrasolar planets.
Find instrument descriptions, performance measurements and images from this European Space Observatory exoplanetary project.
Extrasolar planet project uses a combination of the four VLT unit telescopes and of several moveable 1.8m auxiliary telescopes.