| 14 June : | 6 CoRoT planets: CoRoT 8b, CoRoT 10b, CoRoT 11b, CoRoT 12b, CoRoT 13b, CoRoT 14b, |
| 12 June : | An extrasolar origin for comets ? (Levison et al.) |
| 11 June : | Confirmation of the planet β Pic b (Lagrange et al.) |
| 17 March : | CoRoT-9b: a transiting Jupiter on a Mercury-type orbit (Deeg et al) |
| 13 January : | First spectrum of the image of an exoplanet (Janson et al) |
| 04 January : | Kepler-4b, Kepler-5b, Kepler-6b, Kepler-7b and Kepler-8b: first Kepler hot planets |
| 16 December : | Gl 1214 b: a super-Earth transiting a nearby M star (Charbonneau et al.) |
| 02 December : | Planet VB10 b found by astrometry not seen in Radial Velocity data (Bean et al.) |
| 27 October : | The CNES mission CoRoT extended until April 2013 |
| 19 October : | 30 planets (Delfosse, Forveille, Hebrard, Lo Curto, Mordasini, Naef, Santos, Segransan et al) |
| 16 September : | CoRoT-7 b,c: first system with 2 super-Earths, one transiting (Queloz, Bouchy, Moutou et al) |
| 10 August : | Kepler detects the secondary transit of HAT-P-7 b (Borucki et al) |
| 31 July : | HAT-P-13 b,c: the first multiplanet system with one transiting planet (Bakos et al). |
| 30 May : | VB 10 b: the first planet candidate discovered by astrometry (Pravdo & Shaklan) |
| 30 April : | HAT-P-12 b: a new transiting hot Saturn (Hartman et al) |
| 21 April : | Gl 581 e: a 1.9 Earth mass planet (Mayor et al). |
| 21 April : | GJ 581 d: a super-Earth in the habitable zone? (Mayor et al). |
| 10 March : | Change in CoRoT planets names |
| 07 March : | Kepler Lifted off successfully at 03h48' UT |
| 26 February : | The transit of the 111-day-period planet HD 80606 b has been detected by Moutou et al and Fossey et al |
| 03 February : | CoRoT-Exo-7 b : the first transiting super-Earth (Rouan et al) |
| 28 January : | Rapid heating of the atmosphere of HD 80606 b (Laughlin et al) |
| 22 January : | Opening of Exoplanet2009.org for the International Year of Astronomy. |
| 13 January : | Membership of IAU Commission "Extrasolar Planets" |
| 06 January : | HAT-P-11 b: the smallest transiting Neptune (Bakos et al) |
| 10 December : | Carbon dioxide (CO2) detected in the exoplanet HD 189733 b (Swain et al) |
| 21 November : | Probable detection of a planet by imaging around beta Pictoris (Lagrange et al.) |
| 13 November : | 3 planets detected by imaging around HR 8799 (Marois et al) |
| 13 November : | 1 planet detected by imaging around Fomalhaut (Kalas et al) |
| 03 November : | Three new planets: HD 143361 b , HD 43848 b and HD 48265 b (Minniti et al) |
| 28 October : | Six new planets: BD-17 63 b, HD 131664 b , HD 145377 b, HD 153950 b, HD 17156 b and HD 20868 b (Moutou et al) |
| 29 September : | One planet, two names: WASP-11 b/HAT-10 b (West et al. and Bakos et al.) |
| 16 September : | New functionalities in the catalog |
| 16 June : | 5 super-Earths in 3 systems: HD 40307 b, HD 40307 c, HD 40307 d (Mayor et al HD 181433 b, HD 181433 c and HD 47186 b, HD 47186 c (Bouchy et al) |
| 16 June : | One system with 2 planets: HD 102272 b and HD 102272 c (Niedzielski et al) |
| 02 June : | MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b: a 3.3 Earth mass planet detected by microlensing (Bennett et al). |
| 19 May : | XO-5 b: a new transiting planet (Burke et al) |
| 19 May : | 3 transting CoRoT objects: one compact brown dwarf CoRoT-Exo-3 b and two planets CoRoT-Exo-4 b and CoRoT-Exo-5 b |
| 01 April : | 10 new transiting planets: WASP-6, b to WASP-15, b (Pollacco et al) |
| 29 March : | A note to [Exoplanets] subscribers |
| 14 February : | A Jupiter+Saturn analog system found by microlensing: Ogle-2006-BLG-109L b, c (Gaudi, Bennett et al.) |
| 20 December : | CoRoT-Exo-2 b: second CoRoT transiting planet |
| 15 December : | GD 66 b: first planet candidate around a white dwarf (detected by timing of stellar oscillations by Mullally et al.) |
| 04 December : | Possible detection of polarized reflected light from the atmosphere of HD 189733 b (Berdyugina et al.) |
| 06 November : | A 5th planetary companion to 55 Cnc |
| 05 November : | CoRoT: 300 days in orbit |
| 31 October : | Three new transiting planets: WASP-3 b (Pollaco et al), WASP-4 b and WASP-5 b. |
| 30 October : | OGLE-TR-182 b: new transiting planet (Pont et al) |
| 18 October : | PLATO: a transit mission preselected by ESA for Assessement Study |
| 16 October : | HAT-P-6 b: a new transiting planet (Noyes et al) |
| 10 October : | HAT-P-5 b: a new transiting planet (Bakos et al) |
| 04 October : | 2 new transiting planets: HAT-P-4 b (Kovacs et al) The transiting planet with the largest orbital period (21.2 day): HD 17156 b (Barbieri et al) |
| 26 July : | HAT-P-3b, a new transiting planet (G. Torres et al) |
| 11 July : | First conclusive detection of water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (G. Tinetti et al.) |
| 06 July : | Four new extrasolar planets: HD 43691b (Da Silva et al.), HD 132406 b (Da Silva et al.), GJ 317 b and GJ 317 c (Johnson et al.) |
| 22 May : | Three new transiting planets: TrES-3 (O'Donovan et al), HD147506 = HAT-P-2b (Bakos et al) and Gl 436 b (Gillon et al.) |
| 03 May : | CoRoT-Exo-1b: first exoplanet detected by CoRoT |
| 02 May : | XO-2b, a new transiting planet (Burke et al.) |
| 02 May : | HAT-P-2b: a new transiting planet |
| 25 April : | Gl 581 c, the first super-Earth detected in a habitable zone (Udry et al) |
| 14 April : | Five new planets: HD 125612 b, HD 170469 b, HD 17156 b, HD 231701 b and HD 11506 b (Fischer et al.) |
| 28 March : | A planet around the K giant star 4 Uma (Doellinger et al.) |
| 05 March : | Three new planets: HD 100777 b, HD 190647 b and HD 221287 b (Naef et al.) |
| 21 February : | New infrared spectra by Spitzer for HD 189733 b (Grillmair et al.) and HD 209458 b (Richardson et al.) |
| 20 February : | A new planet: HD 219828 b (Melo et al.) |
| 09 February : | Two new planets: HD23127 b and HD 159868 b (O'Toole et al.) |
| 07 February : | A planet in the Hyades: eps Tau b (Sato et al.) |
| 19 January : | First image of CoRoT on the sky |
| 27 December : | The CoRoT satellite has been successfully launched from Baikonur on Dec 27 at 14h 23min 39sec (UT) |
| 26 December : | The CoRoT satellite will be launched from Baikonur tomorrow |
| 05 December : | Due to a defect on a hydrazine tank of Fregat, the new launch date of CoRoT is Dec. 27 |
| 15 November : | The CoRoT spacecraft has arrived at the Baikonour launch base |
| 14 October : | Detection of day/night variation of thermal emission of ups And b (Harrington et al.) |
| 09 October : | Astrometric confirmation of eps Eri b with Hubble (Benedict et al.) |
| 26 September : | WASP-1b and WASP-2b : two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE (Collier Cameron et al.) |
| 14 September : | HAT-P-1b: first transiting planet detected by the HATNet network (Bakos et al). The largest planet detected today. |
| 08 September : | TrES-2: The First Transiting Planet in the Kepler Field (O'Donovan et al.) |
| 26 August : | A 4th planet in the HD 160691 system (Gozdiewski et al; Pepe et al.) |
| 15 July : | 5 new planets: HD 164922 b , HD 66428 b, HD 99109 b , HD 107148 b and HIP 14810 b (Butler et al. 2006) |
| 16 June : | beta Gem b: confirmation of a planet suspected in 1993 (Hatzes et al) |
| 06 June : | A dust disk around 2M1207 ? (Mohanty et al) |
| 18 May : | A new transiting planet: XO-1b = GSC 02041-01657 b (McCullogh et al) |
| 17 May : | A planetary system with 3 Neptune-mass planets around HD 69830 (Lovis et al). |
| 01 May : | Start of the PLANET Anomaly Alert 2006 Season |
| 18 April : | Three new planets: HD 224693 b , HD 33283 b and HD 86081 b (Johnson and NK2 consortium) |
| 15 March : | Two new very eccentric planets: HD 187085 b and HD 20782 b (Jones et al, AAT) |
| 14 March : | OGLE-2005-BLG-169 b: a 13 Earth mass planetary microlensing candidate (Gould et al) |
| 28 February : | HD 73526 c: a new planet in 2:1 resonance (Tinney et al). |
| 22 February : | Strong IR emission from HD 189733b detected by Spitzer (Deming et al) |
| 25 January : | OGLE-05-390Lb: a 5.5 Earth-mass planet on a wide orbit detected by microlensing (Beaulieu et al. and the PLANET, OGLE and MOA collaborations) |
| 13 January : | HD 102195 b: the first planet detected (by radial velocity) by the Exoplanet Tracker (Jian Ge et al) |
| 30 November : | Cha 110913: free floating planet or brown dwarf? (Luhman et al) |
| 24 November : | A 6.9 Jup Mass planet around HD 81040 : HD 81040 b (Sozzetti et al) |
| 14 October : | HD 33564 debris disk is spurious (Bryden et al). See also astro-ph/0509112 revised |
| 06 October : | New transiting planet : HD 189733 b (Bouchy et al.) |
| 07 September : | HD 33564 b: a planet around a star surrounded by a disk (Galland et al) |
| 30 August : | 4 new planets: Gl 581 b (Bonfils et al), HD 118203 b (Da Silva et al), HD 212301 b (Lo Curto et al) and HD 4308 b (Udry et al) |
| 23 August : | Two new hot Jupiters: HD 149143 b and HD 109749 (Fischer D. et al) |
| 04 August : | Planet in a close triple system: HD 188753 (Konacki) |
| 01 July : | HD 149026 b: a saturnian transiting planet (Sato, Fischer et al, NK2 Consortium) |
| 24 June : | Five new multi-component slanetary systems: HD 108874, HD 128311, HD 190360, HD 217107 and HD 37124 (Vogt et al). |
| 23 June : | Indirect clues for a planetary system around the star Fomalhaut (Kalas, Graham & Clampin) |
| 13 June : | 6 - 8 Earth mass planet detected around Gliese 876 (by E.Rivera, J.Lissauer, R.P.Butler, G.W.Marcy, S.Vogt, D.A.Fischer, T.Brown, & G.Laughlin) |
| 28 May : | Planetary microlensing event OGLE-05-071 (Udalski et al) |
| 17 May : | Limit on the albedo of HD 209458 b from the Canadian MOST satellite (Matthews et al) |
| 30 April : | Confirmation of the planet 2M1207 b (Chauvin et al). |
| 30 April : | Brown dwarf/planet companion to AB Pic detected by direct imaging (Chauvin et al). |
| 26 April : | Coming soon: new interactive catalog |
| 09 April : | HD 8673 : the first planet or brown dwarf detected by the Tautenburg Planet Search Program (Hatzes et al) |
| 05 April : | A planet or brown dwarf around the K giant HD 13189 (Hatzes et al) |
| 31 March : | Direct detection by imaging of a young few MJ companion to GQ Lup (Neuhäuser et al) |
| 22 March : | Direct thermal emission detected for two planets by Spitzer Space Telescope : HD 209458 b (Deming et al, Nature) and TrES-1 (Charbonneau et al, ApJ) |
| 14 February : | Six new planets: HD 2638 b, HD 27894 b, and HD 63454 b (Moutou et al) HD 93083 b and HD 101930 b, (Lovis et al) HD 142022 Ab (HARPS & Coralie) |
| 25 January : | Five new planets: HD 45350., HD 99492., HD 117207, HD 183263 and HD 188015 (Marcy et al) |
| 11 May : | Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder |
| 03 May : | No planet around HD 219542 B |
| 28 April : | Independent RV confimation of the transiting planet OGLE-TR-113 b (Konacki et al). |
| 15 April : | OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a definitive planetary microlensing event, detected by the MOA and OGLE teams (I. Bond et al). |
| 14 April : | Two new very hot Jupiters mong the OGLE transiting candidates: OGLE-TR-113 and OGLE-TR-132 (Bouchy et al). |
| 01 April : | Nine low radius transit candidates (Drake & Cook). |
| 25 February : | A new transiting planet candidate (Jurcsik et al, Kondoly Observatory). To be confirmed spectroscopically) |
| 18 February : | HD 330075 b: the first planet discovered by HARPS (Mayor et al) |
| 09 February : | Detection of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of the planet HD209458 b (Vidal-Madjar et al) |
| 17 November : | Two new planet candidates: HD 59686 b et HD 219449 b (Mitchell et al.) |
| 07 November : | The Eddington space mission (partially devoted to the search for habitable planets) has been cancelled by ESA |
| 16 July : | Well determined mass of a "cluster planet" (Martin & Zapaterio-Osorio) |
| 10 July : | Mass of planet around PSR B1620-26, detected 10 years ago by pulsar timing, determined by Hubble (Sigurdsson, Richer, Hansen, et al) (Press Release) |
| 03 July : | A 6 year period planet in circular orbit around HD 70642 (Carter et al) |
| 01 July : | MOST space mission, partially devoted to planets, successfully launched |
| 30 June : | 7 new planets: HD 41004 A (Zucker et al) HD 65216, HD 111232, HD 142415, HD216770, HD 10647 (Mayor et al) HD 169830 (2nd planet in known system, Mayor et al) |
| 26 June : | First "japanese planet candidate" around HD 104985 (Sato et al) |
| 24 June : | Several new OGLE-III planetary transit candidates |
| 18 December : | A planetary candidate around HD 47536 (Setiawan et al, ESO) |