Lists of planets

These are lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets.

As of 27 June 2024, there are 5,678 confirmed exoplanets in 4,231 planetary systems, with 952 systems having more than one planet.[1] Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 1,982 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 976 from its "Second Light" mission and 4,658 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.[2]

  •   Transit: 4,210 (74.2%)
  •   Radial velocity: 1,089 (19.2%)
  •   Microlensing: 221 (3.9%)
  •   Direct imaging: 82 (1.4%)
  •   Transit-timing variation: 29 (0.5%)
  •   Eclipse timing variation: 17 (0.3%)
  •   Orbital brightness modulation: 9 (0.2%)
  •   Pulsar timing variation: 8 (0.1%)
  •   Astrometry: 3 (0.1%)
  •   Pulsation timing variation: 2 (0.0%)
  •   Disk kinematics: 1 (0.0%)

In the Solar System

Outside the Solar System

* List of directly imaged exoplanets

Lists of exoplanets by year of discovery

Extrasolar systems
Exoplanets by method of detection
Records in exoplanet detection
Potential terrestrial exoplanets

Fictional or non-scientific planets

Mixed

See also

References

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