The UK-led SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) programme, which involves the expertise of The Open University Astronomy Research Group, has found several new planets orbiting far-distant stars.

SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program developed by a consortium of academic institutions including Cambridge University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes, Keele University, Leicester University, Open University, Queen's University Belfast and St. Andrew's University. It is expected that SuperWASP will revolutionise our understanding of planet formation paving the way for future space missions searching for 'Earth-like’ worlds. SuperWASP's purpose is to find planets so that more specialist telescopic systems can then investigate more closely.

For more information on the planets found by the program, visit http://www.superwasp.org/