Discovery of Extrasolar Planets. An introductory astronomy exercise. Version

May 3, 2007 . Gliese 581 c is not the only planet discovered recently. * XO-2b: is a fairly typical

Jan 27, 2012 . NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26

Nov 22, 2010 . Paris (UPI) Nov 22, 2010 - Astronomers have discovered the 500th exoplanet

Extrasolar planets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.The first

Dec 5, 2011 . Along with the confirmed extra-solar planet, one of 28 discovered so far by Kepler

But until 1995, no planets had been discovered orbiting other stars like the sun. It

Jul 27, 2009 . Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife have captured

Dec 2, 2011 . Three New Exo-Planets Discovered (Nov. 5, 2007) — Three new extrasolar

Sep 13, 2011 . Astronomers have announced the discovery of 50 exoplanets, one of which could

Oct 19, 2009 . Exoplanets Galore - 32 New Extrasolar Planets Found . HARPS has facilitated

Dec 16, 2009 . Meet GJ 1214b, the most Earth-like planet ever found outside our solar system.

Notable Discoveries Click on a planet in the Kepler field of view for more details.

Dec 5, 2009 . Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been detected in orbit around nearby stars.

In early 1992, radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail

For those reasons, fewer than 5% of the extrasolar planets known as of . .

Sep 12, 2011 . “This is the lowest-mass confirmed planet discovered by the radial . (in

Extra Solar Planets by H Graem. The first confirmed discovery of extrasolar

Oct 6, 2010 . Planetary News: Extrasolar Planets (2010). Billions and Billions? Discovery of

Nov 7, 2008 . WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant

Dec 16, 2011 . This is a painting that shows an artist's conception of what some recently

Feb 9, 2012 . In today's Academic Minute, the University of Rochester's Alice Quillen discusses

The original aim of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), a long-

Aug 25, 2009 . Call them the wrong-way planets. Several giant, extrasolar planets, all residing

Nov 30, 2011 . "Until a few years ago, the smallest extra-solar planet that we had discovered

Mar 21, 2010 . The newly discovered transiting extrasolar planet, CoRoT-9b, has a mass,

The planet around 51 Pegasi turned out to be a Gas Giant, much like our own

Includes news of new planet discoveries, information on the latest extrasolar

Astrometry is the oldest method used to detect extrasolar planets. . director,

Sep 12, 2011 . The discoveries bring the total number of known extrasolar planets, or exoplanets

Several more extra-solar planets have now been discovered by the Butler/Marcy

Nov 13, 2008 . NASA reported a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars made by

Nov 23, 2010 . The 500th alien planet appears to have been discovered, extrasolar planet

Feb 9, 2012 . Less than two decades after the first discoveries of extrasolar planets, we know

Feb 18, 2010 . Astronomers have discovered the youngest extra-solar planet around a solar-

Aug 31, 2004 . This artist's concept shows the newly discovered Neptune-sized extrasolar planet

Feb 29, 2012 . Astronomers have announced the smallest planets yet discovered outside of our

Aug 26, 2004 . A team of planet-hunters will announce their discovery of a new class of planets

Jan 13, 2009 . The Table below lists the 291 known companions to Solar-type stars with

11 hours ago . Extrasolar Planet News. Astronomers discover extrasolar planets in a nearby star

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

Academic Minute: Extrasolar Planet Discovery. February 9, 2012 - 3:00am. In

Feb 4, 2011 . An artist's illustration of the extrasolar planets discovered around the star Kepler-

Dec 5, 2011 . Extrasolar planet discoveries have boosted by 50 percent the number of known

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26

Nov 18, 2009 . Astronomers have found that the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b has a retrograde or

Sep 29, 2010 . And since the first, very un-Earthlike extrasolar planet was discovered in 1995,

Dec 10, 2008 . NASA's flagship space telescope finds CO2 in the atmosphere of a planet

In addition, a series of major web sites dealing with the search for extrasolar

22 December : KOI-55b and KOI-55c: two new sub-Earth exoplanets candidates (

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