The discovery adds to a current tally of 996 confirmed exoplanets and 4,183
planetary candidates already found by the revolutionary planet - hunting telescope.
Not exact matches
That pace promises to increase as NASA's Kepler mission carries out its multiyear survey of a large patch of stars; the campaign has
already located several hundred
planetary candidates for follow - up study and confirmation.
Designated «Kepler - 10b,» the
planetary candidate was
already catalogued as Kepler Object of Interest or (KOI) 72.01.