The discovery of hundreds of exoplanet candidates by NASA's Kepler mission enables astronomers to characterize the eccentricity distribution of small exoplanets. (arxiv.org)
Abstract: Three transiting exoplanet candidate stars were discovered in a ground - based photometric survey prior to the launch of NASA's -LCB- \ it Kepler -RCB- mission. (arxiv.org)
The Kepler space telescope (left) would use that decrease to identify potential exoplanet candidates. (discovermagazine.com)