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.

Artist's concept of the potentially habitable exoplanet Kepler-186f

As of 29 July 2025, there are 5,967 confirmed exoplanets in 4,456 planetary systems, with 999 systems having more than one planet.^[1] Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 1,979 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 976 from its "Second Light" mission and 4,697 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.^[2]

Transit: 4,427 (74.2%)
Radial velocity: 1,130 (18.9%)
Microlensing: 247 (4.1%)
Direct imaging: 83 (1.4%)
Transit-timing variation: 38 (0.6%)
Eclipse timing variation: 17 (0.3%)
Orbital brightness modulation: 9 (0.2%)
Pulsar timing variation: 8 (0.1%)
Astrometry: 5 (0.1%)
Pulsation timing variation: 2 (0.0%)
Disk kinematics: 1 (0.0%)

Observation method for confirmed exoplanets^[2]

In the Solar System

For a list of geophysical planets in the Solar System, see: List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System This also includes a list of the eight planets according to the IAU definition.
For a list of objects in the Solar System once but no longer generally considered planets, see: List of former planets
For a list of objects in the Solar System, including planets, that have been or are believed to exist, but either have not been proven or have been disproven, see: List of hypothetical Solar System objects

Outside the Solar System

Lists of exoplanets by year of discovery

List of exoplanets discovered before 2000 (31)
List of exoplanets discovered between 2000–2009 (375)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2010 (109)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2011 (179)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2012 (149)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2013 (149)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2014 (869)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2015 (144)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2016 (1498)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2017 (152)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2018 (300)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2019 (170)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2020 (247)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2021 (255)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2022 (313)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2023 (307)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2024 (285)
List of exoplanets discovered in 2025 (76)

Extrasolar systems

Exoplanets by method of detection

Records in exoplanet detection

Potential terrestrial exoplanets

Fictional or non-scientific planets

For a list of planets as used in astrology, see: Planets in astrology
For a list of supposed planets not based on scientific evidence, see: Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience
For lists of planets in fiction, see: Fictional planets of the Solar System, Extrasolar planets in fiction § List, and List of Star Wars planets and moons

Mixed

List of planet types (etymologically accepting of multiple categories)

References

^ "Planetary Systems Composite Data". NASA Exoplanet Archive. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
^ ^a ^b "Exoplanet and Candidate Statistics". NASA Exoplanet Archive. NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2024.

External links

The NASA Exoplanet Archive
The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — Catalog Listing accessed in 2015-09-28
Exoplanet Data Explorer accessed in 2015-09-28
"Open Exoplanets Catalogue". Retrieved 2017-02-27.
Wright, J. T.; Fakhouri, O.; Marcy, G. W.; Han, E.; Feng, Y.; Johnson, John Asher; Howard, A. W.; Fischer, D. A.; Valenti, J. A. (2011-04-01). "The Exoplanet Orbit Database". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 123 (902): 412–422. arXiv:1012.5676. Bibcode:2011PASP..123..412W. doi:10.1086/659427. ISSN 0004-6280. S2CID 51769219.