The Exoplanet Archive's collection of known exoplanets have been discovered using a variety of methods, and many have been detected using more than one method. The following table shows the number of planets contained within the Exoplanet Archive whose discovery can be attributed to a particular technique. The criteria by which a planet is included in the Exoplanet Archive may be found on our Exoplanet Criteria page.
| Discovery Method | Number of Planets |
|---|---|
| Astrometry | 1 |
| Imaging | 26 |
| Radial Velocity | 530 |
| Transit | 283 |
| Transit timing variations | 2 |
| Eclipse timing variations | 6 |
| Microlensing | 18 |
| Pulsar timing variations | 5 |
| All Exoplanets | 871 |
| Transiting Exoplanets | 292 |
| Confirmed planets (mission and community) | 135 |
| Total candidates | 3216 |
| Candidates in habitable zone (180 K < T < 310 K) | 272 |
| Eclipsing binaries | 2177 |
