- The Kepler Mission - http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars through observation of planets transits.
- Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search - http://obswww.unige.ch/%7Eudry/planet/planet.html
The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
- 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.
- Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder - http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_index.html
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.
- Planet Quest - http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
- Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/espd.html
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.
- The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project) - http://boss.phys.cwru.edu/
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).
- Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics - http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps/moa/
The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Project is a joint Japanese/New Zealand experiment established in 1995 to carry out astrophysical observations from New Zealand using `gravitational microlensing' and related techniques.
- Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer - http://www.usno.navy.mil/FAME/
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.
- Transit search - http://www.transitsearch.org/index.htm
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 - http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/ASTindex.html
HST Astrometry Science Team
- Microvariability and Oscillations os STars - http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/
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.
- Transits of Extrasolar Planets - http://www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html
The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
- Planet Imager - http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/PlanetImager.html
NASA planet imager proposal.
- 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.
- Vulcain Camera Project - http://web99.arc.nasa.gov/~vulcan/
NASA Ames Research Centre photometric survey in search of extrasolar planets.
- GENIE - http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~genie/
Ground-based technology demonstrator for the ESA's Darwin space-telescope project. Site data is from a 2002 workshop.
- 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)
- Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News - http://olbin.jpl.nasa.gov/
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.
- 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.
- Terrestrial Planet Finder - http://www.terrestrial-planet-finder.com/
Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
- Extrasolar Group Study - http://extrasolar.krioma.net
Planet-finding assessment by the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham 2004.
- Red Dwarf Stars and the Possibility of Life - http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dmo25/RedDwarfs/
An analysis of the differences between planets orbiting red dwarf stars including tidal locking and spectrum. Shows how life could develop in these conditions.
- European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium - http://laeff.inta.es/EXPORT/
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.
- A Planet from the Early Universe - http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030712/fob1.asp
Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.
- Vulcan South - http://www.polartransits.org/
South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
- James Webb Space Telescope - http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/science/Starsandplanets.html
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies and the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet formation.
- Space - http://www32.brinkster.com/snefru/space/
Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations and diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.
- Nova Celestia - A Guide to Extrasolar Planets - http://www.novacelestia.com/space_art_extrasolar_planets.html
Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
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