The Kepler Mission:
A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars
through observation of planets transits.
http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia:
The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for
extrasolar planets.
http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search:
The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95
the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
http://obswww.unige.ch/%7Eudry/planet/planet.html
Arizona Search for Planets (ASP):
Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and
publications.
http://www.psi.edu/~esquerdo/asp/asp.html
Darwin - Space Infrared Interferometer Project:
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.
http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/
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.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_index.html
Planet Quest:
A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
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.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/espd.html
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).
http://boss.phys.cwru.edu/
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics:
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.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps/moa/
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.
http://export.ft.uam.es/
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.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/FAME/
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.
http://www.transitsearch.org/index.htm
James Webb Space Telescope:
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.
http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/Starsandplanets.html
STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets:
STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar
giant planets transiting their parent stars.
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/stare/stare.html
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.
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/
Transits of Extrasolar Planets:
The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits
of Extrasolar Planets.
http://www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html
A Planet from the Early Universe:
Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in
the universe.
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030712/fob1.asp
