Exoplanet search has hit a purple patch. NASA literally announces every other day that a new Super-Earth has been found. It has been difficult for me to keep track of every one of the new planets, which has resulted in me taking almost two months to write this post (I had to keep changing the theme of the post every time a new planet was found). In this post, I will be talking about the techniques that astronomers use to search for exoplanets and also talk about a few new planets that have been discovered. A couple of decades ago, apart from the nine planets around our Sun (there were nine planets then), astronomers did not know about the existence of any other planet. It is obvious that other planetary systems must exist as our Sun is not unique. There are a few hundred billions stars in each of the few hundred billion galaxies in the universe. Instead of having nine planets, even if each one of the stars had a single planet revolving around them, there should be at least 100 s...