Past Exoplanet Archive News

April 4, 2012: The archive has updated the Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) and false positive status flags from Batalha et al. 2012 for searching the Kepler light curves. The archive has also added a small number of Kepler light curves from quarters 0 through 6 that were not included in previous releases, including 12 quarter time-series for KOIs. You can access the data files by clicking the Kepler Light Curves link on the left of our home page.

March 26, 2012: Two new features have been added to the Exoplanet Archive Web site. A file upload service accepts a list of planet host names to view the planetary parameters in the Interactive Exoplanet Viewer; access it by clicking the Upload File to Search Tables link on the left side of the home page. The Planet Counts page has a breakdown of exoplanets by discovery method and Kepler mission counts; view it by clicking the Planet Counts link in the Current Exoplanet Archive Holdings box on the home page.

March 1, 2012: The archive has added 20,013 Kepler light curves from quarters 7 and 8. You can access the data files by clicking the Kepler Light Curves link in the upper-left corner of our home page. This release includes time-series for known red giants. For more information see http://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/red_giant_release.html.

February 28, 2012: An updated Kepler Candidate list has been incorporated into the archive. The updated table includes a total of 2,321 planet candidates identified by the Kepler Mission. A detailed description of the new list can be found at Batalha et al. 2012 (ApJS, submitted).

February 15, 2012: Thirteen new exoplanets have been added, including nine from Kepler: Kepler-23b Kepler-23c, Kepler-24b, Kepler-24c, Kepler-33b, Kepler-33c, Kepler-33d, Kepler-33e, Kepler-33f. Four RV planets have also been added: GJ 667C c, HD 79498 b, HD 220773 b and HD 197037 b .

January 12, 2012: Six new planets have been added. This includes four new planets from the HATNet project (HAT-P-34b, HAT-P-35b, HAT-P-36b, HAT-P-37b) and two new circumbinary binary planets from the Kepler project (Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b). Also, check out our new page of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers). If you have a question that is not on the page, consider sending it to our Help Desk.

January 9, 2012: Kepler light curves from quarters 4, 5 and 6 are now available in the archive. You can access the FITS files by clicking the Kepler Light Curves link in the upper-left corner of our home page.

January 5, 2012: Five Kepler planets have been added: Kepler-20b, Kepler-20c, Kepler-20d, Kepler-20e, Kepler-20f. Also, the Exoplanet Archive has been updated to include additional file download options and better support for Internet Explorer.

December 15, 2011: Two planets have been added: CoRoT-19b and CoRoT-23b.

December 5, 2011: Kepler-22b has been added to the archive. Kepler-22b is a near-Earth-sized planet recently confirmed to orbit in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun. More details at NASA's Kepler news page.

December 5, 2011: The NASA Exoplanet Archive has launched!

The new archive is funded by NASA through the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) to serve the user community working with exoplanet data, primarily transit data sets from Kepler and CoRoT, by providing long-term data curation and analysis tools. Data content includes exoplanet and stellar host properties, Kepler candidate properties, and some contributed exoplanet data from space- and ground-based projects.

New services and enhancements include:

• Interactive tables for exoplanets and hosts and Kepler Planetary Candidates.


• Multi-quarter light curve viewer for Kepler data, including periodogram, calculations, normalization and phased light curves.


• Kepler candidate table includes centroid information from the Kepler project pipeline.