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In 2014, NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some...

There are other planets out there, and astronomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Nearly 2000 planets have been found so far. The most successful method for finding them is using transits, where a planet physically passes in...

An interview with astronomer Greg Laughlin about planet HD80606b, an exoplanet with extreme fluctuations in its temperature in a matter of hours. Aired Jan. 30, 2009 [10:16 min]

Astronomers are able to map distant extrasolar planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. They mainly use two methods - the Doppler and the Transit methods. [4:35]

Today Phil explains that YES, there are other planets out there and astronomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Exoplanets appear to orbit nearly every kind of star, and we've even found planets that are the same size as Earth....

Once, astronomers thought planets couldn't form around binary stars. Now Kepler has found a whole system of planets orbiting a double star. This finding shows that planetary systems are weirder and more abundant than previously thought....

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water could exist.

Ten newly discovered exoplanets are very distant from their host stars, or not orbiting them at all. [20 mins. 55]

We'll hear about new work in the field of discovering exosolar planets -- including research that used the Hubble Space Telescope to take optical images of a planet orbiting a star some 25 light years away. [12 mins. 29]

Arizona's Lowell Observatory, famous for spotting 'Planet X' aka Pluto, hunts for exoplanets today.

Although the Kepler planet-hunting telescope is no longer operating, discoveries remain to be made in its data to search for distant planets. The audio recording addresses this quest for exoplanets. [24:50]