How's the search for Exo-planets Going?

[flux_29]

Found any planets like Earth yet - or any in the habbitable zones?

 

[Pavonis]

http://exoplanets.org/

Last I heard (and I was just at a seminar about exoplanets last week) most terrestrial-type planets are super-Earths, 3-10 times more massive than our planet. The search for 1 Earth mass planets is ongoing.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Found any planets like Earth yet

Close but no cigar

Part of the reason being we will need bigger telescopes than our Hubble, we need dedicated exoplanet missions. After Bush announced an enthusiastic vision for the Moon and Mars, he spent the next years cutting NASA canceling projects like JIMO (Jupiter mission) and TPF (telescope which could have found Earth-II)
I am not confident for any Obama Presidency either since during times of economic crisis, NASA becomes a scapegoat for the beancounters and right now the US and the World economy is in the economic s**t

Found any planets like Earth yet - or any in the habbitable zones?

Back in the 90s we could only discover hot-jupiters today the planets get closer and closer to an Earth match
CONTENDERS
Uranus sized planet was found around mu Arae just 50 light-years away
Gliese 581 is 5 times the size of Earth
A tripple system was found around the star HD 40307

 

[flux_29]

Found any planets like Earth yet

Close but no cigar

Part of the reason being we will need bigger telescopes than our Hubble, we need dedicated exoplanet missions.

Here here!

 

[flux_29]

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm