Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder 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 A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE 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) 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).
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer 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 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.
Microvariability and Oscillations os STars 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 The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
ExNPS Road Map - August 1996 NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
Vulcain Camera Project NASA Ames Research Centre photometric survey in search of extrasolar planets.
Eddington (ESA SCIENCE) ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)
Anglo-Australian Planet Search Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
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.
Vulcan South South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
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 Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
