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HD 8673 : the first planet or brown dwarf detected by the Tautenburg Planet Search Program (Hatzes et al)

A planet or brown dwarf around the K giant HD 13189 (Hatzes et al)

Direct detection by imaging of a young few M_J companion to GQ Lup (Neuhäuser et al)

Direct thermal emission detected for two planets by Spitzer Space Telescope : HD 209458 b (Deming et al, Nature) and TrES-1 (Charbonneau et al, ApJ)

Six new planets:
HD 2638 b, HD 27894 b, and HD 63454 b (Moutou et al)
HD 93083 b and HD 101930 b, (Lovis et al)
HD 142022 Ab (HARPS & Coralie)

Five new planets: HD 45350., HD 99492., HD 117207, HD 183263 and HD 188015 (Marcy et al)

Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder

No planet around HD 219542 B

Independent RV confimation of the transiting planet OGLE-TR-113 b (Konacki et al).

OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a definitive planetary microlensing event, detected by the MOA and OGLE teams (I. Bond et al).

Two new very hot Jupiters mong the OGLE transiting candidates: OGLE-TR-113 and OGLE-TR-132 (Bouchy et al).

Nine low radius transit candidates (Drake & Cook).

A new transiting planet candidate (Jurcsik et al, Kondoly Observatory). To be confirmed spectroscopically)

HD 330075 b: the first planet discovered by HARPS (Mayor et al)

Detection of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of the planet HD209458 b (Vidal-Madjar et al)

Two new planet candidates: HD 59686 b et HD 219449 b (Mitchell et al.)

The Eddington space mission (partially devoted to the search for habitable planets) has been cancelled by ESA

Well determined mass of a "cluster planet" (Martin & Zapaterio-Osorio)

Mass of planet around PSR B1620-26, detected 10 years ago by pulsar timing, determined by Hubble (Sigurdsson, Richer, Hansen, et al) (Press Release)

A 6 year period planet in circular orbit around HD 70642 (Carter et al)