Detecting planets located outside the Solar System
See also: List of exoplanet firsts and Lists of exoplanets
Number of extrasolar planet discoveries per year through April 2018, with colors indicating method of detection:
Transit
Radial velocity
Microlensing
Direct imaging
TTV (Timing)
Pulsar timing
Histogram of Exoplanets by size – the gold bars represent Kepler's latest newly verified exoplanets (February 26, 2014).Animation showing exoplanets by year from 1991 until 2022 (March) with a total of 5005 discoveries.[1]
An exoplanet (extrasolar planet) is a planet located outside the Solar System. The first evidence of an exoplanet was noted as early as 1917, but was not recognized as such until 2016; no planet discovery has yet come from that evidence.[2] What turned out to be the first detection of an exoplanet was published among a list of possible candidates in 1988, though not confirmed until 2003. The first confirmed detection came in 1992, with the discovery of terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12.[3] The first confirmation of an exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star was made in 1995, when a giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51 Pegasi. Some exoplanets have been imaged directly by telescopes, but the vast majority have been detected through indirect methods, such as the transit method and the radial-velocity method. As of 1 May 2024, there are 5,662 confirmed exoplanets in 4,169 planetary systems, with 896 systems having more than one planet.[4] This is a list of the most notable discoveries.
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