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What are exoplanets?

What are exoplanets? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of exoplanet
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No exoplanets have been imaged directly, so astronomers are working out their sizes and dynamics by their effect on their parent stars.
Even though COROT-9b is cooler than many other exoplanets, it's probably not habitable.
Nevertheless, this unique observing technique opens a new phase in the exploration of exoplanets, or extrasolar planets, say astronomers.
My research interests include the theory of transiting exoplanets, the development of novel detection techniques, signal detection theory and exomoonology.
When astronomers study all those exoplanets and the systems they inhabit, it is natural to look to our own solar system as a template for other planetary systems.
As of November 10, 2015, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, some of them in the 484 known multiplanetary systems.

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