Evidence-backed facts
- The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides programmatic table access to published exoplanet, host-star, candidate, and mission data, with current tables moving to the IVOA Table Access Protocol service. informative
- Public archive queries do not require account authorization and do not grant data-submission, archive-curation, telescope, proposal, or publisher authority. informative
- Clients must select a current TAP table and bind ADQL projection, filters, ordering, output format, and bounded result size instead of relying on retired legacy-table examples. informative
- Archive parameters can come from multiple publications, be revised, retired, or model-dependent and do not independently establish discovery confirmation, habitability, scientific validity, or observation priority. informative