Compounding the confusion, Sasselov redrew a figure from a Kepler team manuscript and, in the process, inadvertently squeezed the majority of candidate exoplanets into a size category he labeled «like Earth.» (sciencemag.org)
Statistical analysis is helping astronomers turn candidate exoplanets into confirmed discoveries. (sciencemag.org)
The Kepler telescope has added several hundred new candidate exoplanets to its stable of 4034, including 10 that are near - Earth - size, in orbits that would allow liquid water at the surface. (sciencemag.org)