- NASA PlanetQuest (5)
- Includes news of new planet discoveries, information on the latest extrasolar planet research, and a new worlds atlas.
- Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
 - Excellent site for those after the facts. In English and French. Includes the Extra-solar Planets Catalogue. - Extrasolar Visions
- Provides hard data and speculation about extrasolar planets.
- Scientific American: A Parade of New Planets
- Astronomers are sighting new planets circling distant stars.
- Search for the Extrasolar Planets, The
- Offers a brief history of the search, finding, and future implications of the extrasolar planets.
- Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS)
- Ong-term programme being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope to search for giant planets around 200 nearby Solar-type stars with V<7.5.
- Transits of Extrasolar Planets Network (TEP)
- Utilizing the transit method, based on the observation of a star's small drop in brightness, that occurs when the orbit of one of the star's planets passes in front of it.
- Arizona Search for Planets (ASP)
- Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets started in 1996.
- PlanetQuest
- Nonprofit organisation dedicated to cutting edge education and research in the planetary sciences and public participatory discovery of new planets.
- Transitsearch.org
- Working to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
- University of California Planet Search Project
- Providing both information for both the public and the scientific community. Includes an almanac of planets, team member information, and links.
- SuperWASP
- Ultra-wide angle photometric survey of bright stars designed to detect planetary transits and track Near-Earth Objects and optical transients.
- Other Worlds, Distant Suns
- Catalogue of extrasolar planets, with observing guides, star maps, astronomical VRMLs, links, and more.
- Keck Interferometer
- Profile of the ground-based component of NASA's Origins Programme, which addresses fundamental questions about the formation of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems.
- Giant Planets Orbiting Faraway Stars
- Article by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler discussing how extrasolar planets are detected, planetary comparisons, and the future of planet hunting.
- Darwin
- A candidate European infrared interferometer in space for characterizing the planetary systems orbiting nearby stars by direct imaging and spectroscopy.
- Allegheny Observatory
- Extra-solar planet detection and characterization of planetary systems is their primary reserch focus.
- Astro-Venture
- Allows grade school students to role-play NASA careers, as they search for and design a planet that would be habitable to humans. Highlights NASA careers and astrobiology research in: astronomy, geology, biology, and atmospheric sciences.
- ESA Science & Technology: Darwin
- Utilizing a flotilla of six space telescopes, to scan the nearby Universe, looking for signs of life on Earth-like planets.
- Exploring New Worlds
- Article about how astronomers are puzzling over the formation and evolution of discovered massive planets that closely orbit stars near the solar system. From Science News, August 1998.
- NOVA: Hunt for Alien Worlds
- Offers information about the hunt for other worlds, with photos, star maps, links, and more.
- Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE)
- Spectrograph designed specifically to perform precise stellar radial velocity measurements, and optimized for asteroseismology and extrasolar planet detection.
- Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS)
- Searches for evidence of extra-solar planets using the gravitational microlensing technique.
- ESA Science & Technology: Corot
- Mission searching for habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars.
- NASA: New Worlds
- Describes NASA's discoveries of, and efforts to understand, extrasolar planets.
- Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) (2)
- Discover sites about a trans-Atlantic effort to locate transiting extrasolar planets.
- Catalog of Exoplanets - The Planetary Society
- Regularly updated database of all known exoplanets. Answers essential questions about each exoplanet: What is the planet's location and home star? How was it detected? When was it discovered? How many other known planets are orbiting its star?
- Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs
- Downloadable book by Bruce L. Gary. Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs is meant to help amateurs with CCD experience produce high precision light curves.
- Extrasolar Planets - The Planetary Society
- Learn about the search for new planets and life beyond our solar system. Includes news highlighting recent extrasolar planetary discoveries.
- Largest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Found Around a Distant Star
- Lowell Observatory announcement for the discovery of TrES-4, the largest known extrasolar planet.
- New Worlds Atlas - Planet Quest
- Search for exoplanets by planet system (planets with host stars visible to the naked eye, planets within multiple planet systems, or transiting planets), planet type (pulsar planet, gas giant, hot Jupiter, hot Neptune, terrestrial), or by name.
- ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News
- News, videos, images, and links about the discovery of extrasolar planets.
- Spectrashift.com
- Dedicated to amateur radial velocity studies and the search for extrasolar planets.
- Top 10 Most Intriguing Extrasolar Planets
- SPACE.com lists the top 10 most intriguing extrasolar planets with artists' visualizations of these far away worlds.
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