Comment Re:Can someone who knows about astronomy fill me i (Score 4, Informative) 129
OK I answered my own question with some googling.
The age of the exoplanet is not independently derived, but instead, taken from the age of the host star. This too can be difficult to determine. For isolated stars, there are precious few methods (such as gyrochronology) and they generally have large errors associated with them. Thus, instead of looking for isolated stars, astronomers searching for young exoplanets have tended to focus on clusters which can be dated more easily using the main sequence turn off method.
http://www.universetoday.com/76495/the-hunt-for-young-exoplanets/