How does the Kepler telescope finds planets?

The mission of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is to identify and characterize Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. read more

Kepler was the first telescope to find a planet approximately the size of Earth in the habitable region of a star. Dubbed Kepler-69c, the exoplanet is about 2,700 light-years away and has a diameter about 1.5 times that of Earth. read more

Planets around stars other than the Sun are called exoplanets, or extrasolar planets. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009, was designed to survey a small region of the Milky Way galaxy to look for Earthlike planets. read more