Hot Jupiters and Rare Earths Information about giant planets near other stars. Hunting Planets Beyond Article from Astronomy Magazine on the search for extrasolar planets. A Search For Terrestrial Planets NASA'a Kepler mission to discover Earth-like extrasolar planets. There are 50 known planetary systems around main sequence stars, including the solar system, containing at least 63 known planets. New 'Vulcan' Planet Tantalizes Astronomers Discovery of a planet orbiting around Epsilon Eridani.
Many extrasolar planets appear to have highly eccentric elliptical orbits.
Information on extrasolar planets from Bill Arnett's popular Nine Planets site. Other Worlds, Distant Suns Catalog of extrasolar planets with astronomy and astronautical engineering links. A new model could spoil the party for planet hunters by proposing the free floating Jupiter-sized objects are basically star fragments, not new worlds. Planet Search Phycics and Techniques Information on high precision Doppler measurements used for finding planets. Planetary Science Institute Planetary Science Institute home page.