Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.

Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.

Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.

Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.

The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.

Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.

ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)

EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary systems.

NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.

Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of the Whipple Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona.

Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide

FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and several other institutions.

The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.

HST Astrometry Science Team

NASA's next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope,is named in honor of the man who led NASA in the early days of the fledgling aerospace agency,and is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.

This page presents a list of carefully selected links to very informative sites about extra solar planets.

A joint Japanese/New Zealand project established to carry out astrophysical observations using a gravitational microlensing technique. Applications include research for extra-solar planets, dark matter, stellar atmospheres, and variable stars. Page includes information on imaging processes, the group's telescope, and publications.

Detection and characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) and magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically their structures and ages; (2) reflected light from giant exoplanets closely orbiting Sun-like stars, to reveal their sizes and atmospheric compositions; and (3) turbulent variations in massive evolved (Wolf-Rayet) stars to understand how they add gas to the interstellar medium.

MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera

Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.

NASA JPL's Optical Long Baseline Interferometer project homepage. Aims to increase optical resolution of the local universe sufficient to detect extrasolar planets and other phenomena.

NASA planet imager proposal.

A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth

Will study all aspects of planets outside the solar system from their formation and development to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars.

Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets

STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars.

A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.

Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations and diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.

Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.

Mission designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events) and to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby bright objects (such as planets around stars).

The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.

A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.

Home site of European Union funded Research Training Network "The Origin of Planetary Systems".

The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph

The purpose of transitsearch.org is to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.

The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.

The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.

Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.

NASA Ames Research Centre photometric survey in search of extrasolar planets.

South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.