Kepler-22b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-087.01) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the Sun-like star Kepler-22. It is located about 640 light-years (200 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus.

Sep 3, 2024 · The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.

Oct 24, 2024 · Kepler-22 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 9.1 Earths, it takes 289.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.812 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2011.

Apr 17, 2014 · The Kepler Space Telescope, which simultaneously and continuously measured the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, is NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around stars like our sun.

Apr 15, 2020 · A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.

Oct 25, 2024 · NASA’s Kepler, the 10th in a series of low-cost, low-development-time and highly focused Discovery-class science missions, was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in our region of the Milky Way. The spacecraft was named after the famed German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).

Mar 6, 2009 · Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. Using data from the Kepler mission and the extended K2 mission, scientists have identified more than 2,800 candidate exoplanets and have confirmed more than 2,600 of these as bona fide planets.

Dec 5, 2011 · PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet …

Mar 6, 2009 · Kepler, U.S. satellite that detected extrasolar planets. During its missions it discovered 2,662 extrasolar planets, about two-thirds of all planets then known. Kepler discovered between 2 and 12 planets that are roughly Earth-size within their stars’ habitable zones.

Kepler data is used to search for Earth-sized planets around distant stars. The Kepler Mission was a space observatory designed to survey a specific portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy. An important part of Kepler’s work was the identification of …