Extrasolar Planets
Links
A Planet from the Early Universe
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030712/fob1.asp
Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.
About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
http://space.about.com/cs/nasanews/a/tpf051104.htm
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.
Anglo-Australian Planet Search
http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/cgt/planet/aat.html
Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
http://www.psi.edu/~esquerdo/asp/asp.html
Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
California and Carnegie Planet Search
The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
Darwin - Space Infrared Interferometer Project
http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/
Designed for general astrophysics and search for signs of life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. It is a candidate cornerstone 9 for a European Space Agency mission in 2015.
Darwin Space Inferometer Project (ESA SCIENCE)
http://sci.esa.int/home/darwin/
Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.
Eddington (ESA SCIENCE)
http://sci.esa.int/home/eddington/
ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)
European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium
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.
ExNPS Road Map - August 1996
http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/exnps/ExNPS.html
NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.