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

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* 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

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Distribution of confirmed exoplanets with respect to distance from the Sun

* List of directly imaged exoplanets
* List of exoplanet extremes
* List of exoplanet firsts
* List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope
* List of exoplanets observed during Kepler's K2 mission
* List of extrasolar candidates for liquid water
* List of terrestrial exoplanet candidates for atmosphere detection
* List of hottest exoplanets
* List of coolest exoplanets
* List of multiplanetary systems
* List of nearest exoplanets
* List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates
* List of potentially habitable exoplanets
* List of proper names of exoplanets
* List of largest exoplanets
* List of smallest exoplanets
* List of transiting exoplanets
* List of exoplanets and planetary debris around white dwarfs
* List of extrasolar planetary collisions

### Lists of exoplanets by year of discovery

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* 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

* List of multiplanetary systems
* List of exoplanets discovered using the Kepler space telescope
* List of stars with proplyds
* List of rogue planets

Exoplanets by method of detection

* List of exoplanets detected by radial velocity
* List of transiting exoplanets
* List of exoplanets detected by microlensing
* List of exoplanets discovered via astrometry
* List of directly imaged exoplanets
* List of exoplanets detected by timing

Records in exoplanet detection

* List of exoplanet extremes
* List of exoplanet firsts

Potential terrestrial exoplanets

* List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates
* List of potentially habitable exoplanets

## Fictional or non-scientific planets

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* 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

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* List of planet types (etymologically accepting of multiple categories)

## See also

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* Lists of astronomical objects
* Classical planet
* Definition of planet
* List of exoplanet search projects

## References

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

## External links

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* 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.

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Exoplanets

* Planet
* Definition
* IAU
* Planetary science

Main topics|

* Exoplanet
* Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters
* Methods of detecting exoplanets
* Planetary system
* Planet-hosting stars

Sizes
and
types|

| Terrestrial|

* Carbon planet
* Catastrophically evaporating planet
* Coreless planet
* Desert planet
* Dwarf planet
* Hycean planet
* Ice planet
* Iron planet (Super-Mercury)
* Lava planet
* Ocean world
* Mega-Earth
* Steam world
* Sub-Earth
* Super-Earth

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Gaseous|

* Cold Jupiter
* Eccentric Jupiter
* Mini-Neptune (Gas dwarf)
* Helium planet
* Hot Jupiter
* Hot Neptune
* Gas giant
* Ice giant
* Neptunian
* Jupiter analogue
* Super-Jupiter
* Super-Neptune
* Super-puff
* Ultra-hot Jupiter
* Ultra-hot Neptune
* Warm Jupiter

Other types|

* Blanet
* Brown dwarf
* Chthonian planet
* Circumbinary planet
* Circumtriple planet
* Disrupted planet
* Double planet
* Ecumenopolis
* Eyeball planet
* Giant planet
* Mesoplanet
* Planemo
* Planet/Brown dwarf boundary
* Planetesimal
* Protoplanet
* Pulsar planet
* Sub-brown dwarf
* Sub-Neptune
* Toroidal planet
* Ultra-cool dwarf
* Ultra-short period planet (USP)

Formation
and
evolution|

* Accretion
* Accretion disk
* Asteroid belt
* Circumplanetary disk
* Circumstellar disc
* Circumstellar envelope
* Cosmic dust
* Debris disk
* Detached object
* Disrupted planet
* Excretion disk
* Exozodiacal dust
* Extraterrestrial materials
* Extraterrestrial sample curation
* Giant-impact hypothesis
* Gravitational collapse
* Hills cloud
* Internal structure
* Interplanetary dust cloud
* Interplanetary medium
* Interplanetary space
* Interstellar cloud
* Interstellar dust
* Interstellar medium
* Interstellar space
* Kuiper belt
* List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
* Merging stars
* Molecular cloud
* Nebular hypothesis
* Oort cloud
* Outer space
* Planetary migration
* Planetary system
* Planetesimal
* Planet formation
* Protoplanetary disk
* Radial drift
* Ring system
* Rubble pile
* Sample-return mission
* Scattered disc
* Star formation

Systems|

* Exocomet
* Interstellar
* Exomoon
* Tidally detached
* Rogue planet
* Orbits
* Retrograde
* Trojan
* Mean-motion resonances
* Titius–Bode law

Host stars|

* A
* B
* Binary star
* Brown dwarfs
* F/Yellow-white dwarfs
* G/Yellow dwarfs
* Herbig Ae/Be
* K/Orange dwarfs
* M/Red dwarfs
* Pulsar
* Red giant
* Subdwarf B
* Subgiant
* T Tauri
* White dwarfs
* Yellow giants

Detection|

* Astrometry
* Direct imaging
* list
* Microlensing
* list
* Polarimetry
* Timing
* list
* Radial velocity
* list
* Transit method
* list
* Transit-timing variation

Habitability|

* Astrobiology
* Astrooceanography
* Circumstellar habitable zone
* Earth analog
* Extraterrestrial liquid water
* Galactic habitable zone
* Habitability of binary star systems
* Habitability of F-type main-sequence star systems
* Habitability of K-type main-sequence star systems
* Habitability of natural satellites
* Habitability of neutron star systems
* Habitability of red dwarf systems
* Habitability of yellow dwarf systems
* Habitable zone for complex life
* List of potentially habitable exoplanets
* Tholin
* Superhabitable planet

Catalogues|

* Nearby Habitable Systems
* Exoplanet Data Explorer
* Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
* NASA Exoplanet Archive
* NASA Star and Exoplanet Database
* Open Exoplanet Catalogue

Lists|

* Exoplanetary systems
* Host stars
* Multiplanetary systems
* Stars with proto-planetary discs

* Exoplanets
* Discoveries
* Extremes
* Firsts
* Nearest
* Largest
* Heaviest
* Terrestrial candidates
* Kepler
* 1–500
* 501–1000
* 1001–1500
* 1501–2000
* K2
* Potentially habitable
* Proper names

* Discovered exoplanets by year
* before 2000
* 2000–2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Other|

* Carl Sagan Institute
* Exoplanet naming convention
* Exoplanet phase curves
* Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer
* Extragalactic planet
* Extrasolar planets in fiction
* Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
* Neptunian desert
* Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
* Planets in globular clusters
* Small planet radius gap
* Sudarsky's gas giant classification

* Discoveries of exoplanets
* Search projects

* v
* t
* e

Exoplanet search projects

* Exoplanetology
* Exoplanet

Ground-based|

* AAPS
* APF
* CORALIE
* EAPSNet
* ELODIE
* EPICS
* ESPRESSO
* FINDS Exo-Earths
* Geneva
* HARPS
* HARPS-N
* GPI
* HATNet
* HEK
* HiCIAO
* HIRES
* KELT
* LCES
* Magellan
* MARVELS
* MASCARA
* MEarth
* MicroFUN
* MINERVA
* Australis
* MOA
* N2K
* NGTS
* NESSI
* OGLE
* OPSP
* PlanetPol
* Project 1640
* PARAS
* SEEDS
* SETI
* SOPHIE
* SPECULOOS
* SPHERE
* SuperWASP
* Systemic
* TrES
* XO Telescope
* ZIMPOL/CHEOPS

Space missions|

| Past|

* MOST (2003–2019)
* SWEEPS using HST (2006)
* CoRoT (2006–2013)
* EPOXI using Deep Impact (2008–2013)
* Kepler (2009–2018)
* detected exoplanets
* Gaia (2013–2025)
* ASTERIA (2017–2020)

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Current|

* TESS (2018–present)
* CHEOPS (2019–present)
* Hayabusa2 (2021–present)
* James Webb Space Telescope (2021–present)

Planned|

* PLATO (2026)
* Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (2026/2027)
* ARIEL (2029)

Proposed|

* EXCEDE
* HabEx
* LIFE
* LUVOIR
* Nautilus Deep Space Observatory
* New Worlds Mission
* OST
* PEGASE

Cancelled|

* Darwin
* EChO
* Eddington
* Space Interferometry Mission
* Terrestrial Planet Finder

Related|

* Detection methods
* Discoveries of exoplanets
* Habitable zone for complex life
* Lists of exoplanets
* nearest

* Category
* Commons

Portals:

* Astronomy
* Stars
* Spaceflight
* Outer space
* Solar System

This article includes an astronomy-related list of lists.

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Solar System

* Sun

* Heliosphere

* Planets

* Rings
* Moons

* Mercury
* Venus
* Earth
* 1 moon
* Mars
* 2 moons: Phobos
* Deimos
* Jupiter
* Rings
* 97 moons: Ganymede
* Callisto
* Io
* Europa
* Saturn
* Rings
* 274 moons: Titan
* Rhea
* Iapetus
* Dione
* Tethys
* Enceladus
* Mimas
* Uranus
* Rings
* 28 moons: Titania
* Oberon
* Umbriel
* Ariel
* Miranda
* Neptune
* Rings
* 16 moons: Triton

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Minor
planets|

| Dwarf planets|

* Ceres
* Orcus
* 1 moon: Vanth
* Pluto
* 5 moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, Styx
* Haumea
* Ring
* 2 moons: Hiʻiaka, Namaka
* Quaoar
* Rings
* 1 moon: Weywot
* Makemake
* 1 moon: MK2
* Gonggong
* 1 moon: Xiangliu
* Eris
* 1 moon: Dysnomia
* Sedna

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Asteroids
(Small Solar
System bodies)|

| Notable asteroids|

* Vesta
* Gaspra
* Ida
* Apophis
* Kalliope
* Pallas
* Juno
* Hygiea

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Groups and families|

* Near-Earth objects
* Asteroid belt
* Trojans
* Venus
* Earth
* Mars
* Jupiter
* Uranus
* Neptune
* Centaurs
* Active asteroids
* Asteroid moons
* Meteoroids

Naming|

* Meanings of asteroid names

Trans-Neptunian
(Distant minor
planets)|

| Kuiper belt|

* Plutinos
* Cubewanos
* Arrokoth

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Other|

* Sednoids
* Detached objects
* Damocloids
* Oort cloud objects
* Hills cloud

Comets|

* Lists of comets
* Periodic comets
* Non-periodic comets
* Sungrazing
* Great
* Extinct
* Lost

Lists|

* Solar System objects by orbit
* By size
* By discovery date
* Geological features
* Craters
* Minor planets
* Gravitationally rounded objects
* Possible dwarf planets
* Natural satellites
* Space probes
* Extremes
* Tallest mountains
* Largest craters
* Largest valleys
* Largest lakes

Hypothetical|

* Planet Nine
* Five-planet Nice model
* Vulcanoids
* Tyche
* Nemesis
* Planets beyond Neptune
* Claimed moons of Earth
* List of hypothetical Solar System objects

See also: Formation and evolution of the Solar System, list of the Solar System's objects by discovery date, by orbit, and by radius or mass, and the Solar System Portal
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