The mission has identified 8,826 objects of interest. Of them, 4,696 are considered candidates, or possible planets. And 1,030 of the candidates have been confirmed.

When the team looked at the data that Kepler has made public, they found something unusual with the planetary candidate KOI-872.01 (KOI stands for "Kepler Object of Interest").

So far, the Kepler “Objects of Interest” are pretty interesting. Take KOI 191, which involves four planets in unstable orbits. Jack Lissauer, ...

Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth's solar system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. The researchers used an automated ...

The set includes KOI 7711 (short for Kepler 'object of interest'), which is just 30 percent larger than Earth and roughly the same distance from its star as the Earth is to the sun, meaning it ...

This is in addition to a list of “Kepler Objects of Interest” that’s sort of the roll call of candidates-to-be-candidates. Using the new method, 428 candidates were validated as very likely ...

T.D. Morton et al. False positive probabilities for all Kepler objects of interest: 1284 newly validated planets and 428 likely false positives. Astrophysical Journal . Vol. 822, May 10, 2016, p.

The possible planet is called KOI 172.02 (KOI stands for Kepler Object of Interest, a designation assigned to all planet candidates found by the telescope until they are confirmed as planets).

We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet validation ...

Each of the signals below is shown in a pair of plots, one from an observation of Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) 817 and one from an observation of KOI-812.

Classed as a “super-Earth,” candidate planet KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 172.02 orbits within the habitable zone of a sun-like star.This means the planet, which has yet to be confirmed by ...