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 1 May 2025, there are 5,889 confirmed exoplanets in 4,395 planetary systems, with 986 systems having more than one planet.^[1] Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 1,980 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 976 from its "Second Light" mission and 4,684 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.^[2]

•   Transit: 4,371 (74.3%)
•   Radial velocity: 1,117 (19.0%)
•   Microlensing: 237 (4.0%)
•   Direct imaging: 83 (1.4%)
•   Transit-timing variation: 35 (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

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 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

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)

See also

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

References

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.