The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know

Join the search for another Earth in this 24-lecture series that explores the brand new science of exoplanets-worlds that exist outside of our solar system.

• By This Professor
• 01: Why Study Exoplanets?
• 02: How to Find an Exoplanet
• 03: Doppler and Transit Planet-Finding Methods
• 04: Pioneers of Planet Searching
• 05: The Misplaced Giant Planets
• 06: Explaining the Misplaced Giant Planets
• 07: The Transits of Exoplanets
• 08: Sniffing Planetary Atmospheres
• 09: Stellar Rotation and Planetary Revolution
• 10: Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes?
• 11: Transiting Planets and the Kepler Mission
• 12: Compact Multiplanet Systems
• 13: Planets Circling Two Stars
• 14: Lava Worlds
• 15: Earthlike Planets
• 16: Living with a Dwarf Star
• 17: Living with a Giant Star
• 18: Our Nearest Exoplanetary Neighbors
• 19: Finding Planets with Gravitational Lensing
• 20: Finding Planets with Direct Imaging
• 21: Near-Term Future Planet-Finding Projects
• 22: Long-Term Future Planet-Finding Projects
• 23: The Search for Life on Exoplanets
• 24: Coming Soon: Biosignatures, Moons, and More!