Astronomy: Extrasolar Planets

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

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

Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.

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

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

A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth

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.

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

GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe

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.

HST Astrometry Science Team

The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph

NASA planet imager proposal.

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)

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.

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

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.