A note from the maintainer:

The Exoplanet Orbit Database will not be regularly updated with planets published after June 2018

It's been a great run. From its origins as a list of "real" planets made by Paul Butler, to the Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets as a chapter of my thesis, to the two iterations of exoplanets.org with its incomparable Exoplanets Data Explorers written by the amazing Onsi Fakhouri, I've been able to watch the field explode from dozens of RV planets to a hundred times that, and the TESS planet wave has only just begun. It's been a privilege to work with so many people to try to keep up with the field, but it's no longer practical for my little team to do so, especially with so many other efforts and exoplanet lists out there.

I'm happy to report that, working with Peter Forshay over the past few months, we've mananged to get the database more-or-less complete up through June 2018, and it's now one of the sources of data for exo.mast . I may continue to make small corrections to the database going forward as a record of where things were in 2018, and I have reason to believe that some new planets will continue to be added to the database from other routes, but June 2018 marks the sunset of regular updates by me and my team.

But this site will continue to exist and improve; in fact we hope that the next several months will see some nice integration of the site with services at STScI, including potentially a much better use of the RV plot windows on the detail pages than the ubiquitous "velocity profile currently unavailable."

And fans of Onsi's Data Explorers will be happy to learn that there are plans afoot to adapt it for new databases and new uses, including potentially other lists of planets that will stay up-to-date. I can't say more now but don't be surprised if in a couple of years those great color plots start appearing in talks about not just exoplanets but other kinds of astronomical objects as well!

Thanks so much to the many many people who worked over the past 10 years at Penn State to enter and manage data on exoplanets.org , including Sharon Wang, Ming Zhao, Jacob Brown, Mcleod Brennaman, Eunkyu Han, Kat Feng, and Colin Hancock.

Finally, thanks to everyone who uses exoplanets.org for talks and for research, and who have encouraged me to try to keep it going for as long as I can. It's been gratifying to see how the hard work that goes into the site has supported so much research for so long.

—Jason T. Wright