List of exoplanets discovered in 2016

This is a list of exoplanets discovered in 2016. As of 2026, 2016 is the year with the most discoveries of exoplanets.
For exoplanets detected only by radial velocity, the mass value is actually a lower limit.

Excluded objects and former candidate

The majority of exoplanet discoveries in 2016 were from a paper by Morton et al. that statistically validated over 1,000 Kepler planets. This statistical validation did not involve mass measurements, and some transiting objects validated as planets were later shown to be small stars. Such cases include Kepler-469, Kepler-470, Kepler-486, Kepler-488, Kepler-503, Kepler-628, Kepler-699, Kepler-706, Kepler-807, Kepler-840, and Kepler-854. In another two cases, Kepler-492 and Kepler-494, the companions are brown dwarfs with masses about 40 times that of Jupiter.
HD 131399 Ab had been thought to be a massive directly imaged planet located in a trinary system. Later analysis showed that it is a background star instead.