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On February 26, 2014, NASA announced the discovery of 715 newly verified exoplanets around 305 stars by the Kepler Space Telescope. The exoplanets were found using a statistical technique called "verification by multiplicity". 95% of the discovered exoplanets were smaller than Neptune and four, including Kepler-296f, were less than 2 1/2 the ...
List of exoplanets observed during Kepler's K2 mission. This is a list of exoplanets observed during the Kepler space telescope 's K2 mission. On 31 March 2022, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb was reported to be the most distant exoplanet found by Kepler to date. [ 1][ 2]
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 [ 5] to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. [ 6][ 7] Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, [ 8] the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been hard at work scanning the universe for planetary bodies and has now confirmed a whopping 104 of them outside our solar system as part of its K2 mission.
Artist's impression of Kepler, the telescope that detected these exoplanet candidates. This is a list of unconfirmed exoplanets discovered or detected by the NASA Kepler mission (Kepler Candidates from the NASA Exoplanet Archive) that are potentially habitable. [1] [2] Those already confirmed are listed by their Kepler names in the list of ...
K2-288Bb (previously designated EPIC 210693462 b) is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of K2-288B, a low-mass M-dwarf star in a binary star system in the constellation of Taurus about 226 light-years from Earth. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered by citizen scientists while analysing data from the Kepler ...
Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet to have been discovered outside the Solar System by the Kepler Space Telescope. [6] Discovered after several months of data collection during the course of the NASA-directed Kepler Mission, which aims to discover Earth-like planets crossing in front of their host stars, the planet's discovery was announced on January 10, 2011.
5.54 g/cm3. Temperature. Teq: 234 K (−39 °C; −38 °F) Kepler-1649c is an Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1649, the outermost planet of the planetary system discovered by Kepler’s space telescope. It is located about 301 light-years (92 pc) away from Earth, in the ...