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“Planet detection” books focus on how scientists find and confirm planets, especially exoplanets orbiting other stars. This category spans narrative histories of the first discoveries to contemporary surveys, explaining the key techniques—transit photometry, radial velocity, direct imaging, astrometry, and microlensing—and the instruments and missions that enable them (e.g., Kepler, TESS, JWST, and leading ground-based observatories). Titles may range from accessible popular science and discovery memoirs to textbooks and technical references covering data analysis, false-positive vetting, occurrence rates, and planetary demographics. Many works also explore the implications of detection for habitability and the search for life, the design of future missions, and the sociocultural impact of finding new worlds. In short, the genre brings together the methods, tools, milestones, and meaning of the planet-hunting enterprise for readers from curious newcomers to advanced students and practitioners.

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