Project name |
Status |
Number of exoplanets found |
Notes |
Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS) |
Active |
28 (as of February 2014) |
|
Automated Planet Finder (APF) |
Active |
0 |
based at the Lick Observatory (also known as the Rocky Planet Finder)[1] |
Carl Sagan Institute |
Active |
0 |
|
CARMENES[2] |
Active |
20+ |
based at Calar Alto Observatory |
CORALIE spectrograph |
Active |
5 |
based at Leonhard Euler Telescope |
East-Asian Planet Search Network (EAPSNET) |
Active |
1 |
|
ELODIE |
Decommissioned |
4 |
|
EPICS |
Future (2030?) |
N/A |
based at the E-ELT[3][4] |
ESPRESSO |
Active |
N/A |
based at the VLT[5][6] |
EXPRES |
Active |
N/A |
based at the Lowell Discovery Telescope[7] |
FINDS Exo-Earths |
Active |
0 |
based at the 3m telescope at Lick Observatory[8] |
Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) |
Active |
1 |
[9] |
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search |
Active |
1+ |
|
High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) |
Active |
130+ |
[10] |
HARPS-N |
Active |
18+[11] |
|
HATNet and HATSouth Projects (HAT) |
Active |
109 |
[12][13] |
Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) |
Active |
0 (A few candidates, including Kepler-1625 b I) |
|
HiCIAO |
Active |
0 |
|
High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) |
Active |
7+[14] |
based at the W. M. Keck Observatory |
KELT |
Decommissioned[15] |
26[16] |
|
Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey (LCES) |
Active |
1+ |
|
Magellan Planet Search Program |
Active |
10+ |
|
MARVELS |
Active |
1+[17] |
|
MASCARA |
Active |
4[18] |
|
MEarth Project |
Active |
3[19] |
|
Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN) |
Merged with PLANET |
10 |
|
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) |
Active |
8 |
Mt. John University Observatory |
MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) |
Active |
0 |
|
N2K Consortium |
Active |
7 |
|
New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI) |
Active |
0 |
|
Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) |
Active |
20[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] |
at Paranal, since 2015 |
Okayama Planet Search Program (OPSP) |
Active |
3 |
|
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) |
Active |
17+ |
|
PlanetPol |
Decommissioned |
0 |
|
PRL Advanced Radial-velocity All-sky Search (PARAS) |
Active |
1[29] |
Spectrograph integrated with the 1.2m Gurushikhar Observatory in Mount Abu, India. |
Project 1640 |
Active |
0+ |
|
Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES) |
Active |
9 |
[30] |
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) |
Active |
0 |
|
SOPHIE échelle spectrograph |
Active |
0+ |
[31] |
Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) |
Active |
1+[32] |
|
SPECULOOS |
Commissioning |
- |
Searching 1,200 nearby "Ultra Cool Dwarfs" (M7 and later). Successor to TRAPPIST.[33] |
Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) |
Active |
1+ |
[34] |
SuperWASP (WASP) |
Active |
191[35] |
[36] |
Systemic |
Active |
0 |
an amateur search project |
The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project |
Active |
1 (candidate)[37][38] |
International network of more than 30 observatories including universities and amateur astronomers. |
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) |
Decommissioned |
5 |
|
Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) |
Active |
7 |
Searching 50 nearby "Ultra Cool Dwarfs" (M7 and later). Prototype for SPECULOOS. |
XO Telescope (XO) |
Active |
5 |
|
ZIMPOL/CHEOPS |
Active |
0 |
subsystem of the VLT-SPHERE instrument, based at the VLT[39] |
COCONUTS |
Active |
3[40][41][42] |
Large-scale survey for wide-orbit planetary and substellar companions[43] |