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Do we currently have any way to detect planets whose orbits do not intersect the light between it's host star and Earth?

From what I understand the way we go about detecting exoplanets is by measuring fluctuation in a star's light indicating that a planet is passing through the light given from it's host star blocking a portion of it from reaching earth.

My question is, is there another method to discover exoplanets which does not rely on the planet having that particular type of orbit, for all we know there could be thousands of planets which orbit around the Z axis of a star relative to our position which would never pass through the light between the star and earth.

**A followup question**: Have we discovered any object which rotate this way around their star?
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Unless they are perfectly perpendicular to our line of sight in their orbits, they will still cause a small periodic radial velocity shift, and could be detected through the star's spectrum. They could also be imaged directly, but that is difficult.