List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope#Table

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{{see also|List of exoplanets observed during Kepler's K2 mission}}

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File:Kepler-62f with 62e as Morning Star.jpg, a potentially habitable exoplanet discovered using data transmitted by the Kepler space telescope]]

The list of exoplanets detected by the Kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties, with significant ranges in orbital distances, masses, radii, composition, habitability, and host star type. As of June 16 2023, the Kepler space telescope and its follow-up observations have detected 2,778 planets, including hot Jupiters, super-Earths, circumbinary planets, and planets located in the circumstellar habitable zones of their host stars.[https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail.html Exoplanet and Candidate Statistics. Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler], exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-retires-kepler-space-telescope NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope], jpl.nasa.gov, Oct 30, 2018{{cite web|last1=Clavin|first1=Whitney|last2=Chou|first2=Felicia|last3=Johnson|first3=Michele|title=NASA's Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones|url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-003|date=6 January 2015|work=NASA|access-date=6 January 2015}}{{cite web|title='Alien Earth' is among eight new far-off planets|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30705517|date=7 January 2015|work=BBC|access-date=7 January 2015}} Kepler has detected over 3,601 unconfirmed planet candidates{{cite news|url=http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html|title=NASA Exoplanet archive|date=5 September 2013|agency=TechMediaNetwork|access-date=15 June 2013|author=Wall, Mike}}{{cite web|title=NASA - Kepler|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html|access-date=26 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105082102/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html|archive-date=5 November 2013}} and 2,165 eclipsing binary stars.

In addition to detecting planets itself, Kepler has also uncovered the properties of three previously known extrasolar planets. Public Kepler data has also been used by groups independent of NASA, such as the Planet Hunters citizen-science project, to detect several planets orbiting stars collectively known as Kepler Objects of Interest.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Schneider, Jean|url=http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=Kepler-9|title=Notes for star Kepler-9|access-date=2012-01-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103072601/http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=Kepler-9|encyclopedia=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|archive-date=2011-01-03}}{{cite encyclopedia|author=Schneider, Jean|url=http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler-41__b/|title=Kepler-41b|access-date=21 December 2011|archive-date=9 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009141430/http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler-41__b/|encyclopedia=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|url-status=dead}}{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler_43_b--1007/|encyclopedia=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|title=Kepler-43b|access-date=8 February 2017}}{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler_44_b--1008/|encyclopedia=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|title=Kepler-44b|access-date=8 February 2017}}{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler_46_b--1107/|encyclopedia=Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|title=Kepler-46b|access-date=8 February 2017}}

Kepler, launched on March 7, 2009, was designed to observe a fixed portion of the sky in visible light and measure the light curves of the various stars in its field of view, looking for planets crossing in front of their host stars via the transit method.{{cite news|author=BBC Staff|title=Nasa launches Earth hunter probe|work=BBC News|date=7 March 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7926277.stm|access-date=2009-03-14}}{{Cite journal|last1 = Sahu|first1 = K. C.|last2 = Gilliland|first2 = R. L.|doi = 10.1086/345776|title = Near‐Field Microlensing and Its Effects on Stellar Transit Observations byKepler|journal = The Astrophysical Journal|volume = 584|issue = 2|pages = 1042–1052|year = 2003|arxiv = astro-ph/0210554|bibcode = 2003ApJ...584.1042S|s2cid = 13043236}} Since the launch of the spacecraft, though, both the Kepler team at NASA and independent researchers have found new ways of detecting planets, including the use of the transit timing variation method and relativistic beaming.{{cite news|url=http://www.space.com/21126-alien-planet-einstein-relativity.html|title='Einstein's Planet': New Alien World Revealed by Relativity|work=Space.com|date=May 13, 2013|agency=TechMediaNetwork|access-date=June 15, 2013|author=Moskowitz, Clara}} In addition, gravitational microlensing has been proposed as a method of using Kepler to detect compact objects, such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Kepler has also measured the reflected light from some planets already known, discovering planets undetectable with the transit method{{cite journal|title=A compact system of small planets around a former red-giant star

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|s2cid=2213885 }} as well as improving knowledge of the characteristics of planets already discovered.{{cite journal|author =Borucki, W.J. |title =Kepler's Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b|journal =Science|volume =325|issue =5941|pages =709|date =2009|doi =10.1126/science.1178312|bibcode =2009Sci...325..709B|pmid =19661420|last2 =Koch|first2 =D.|last3 =Jenkins|first3 =J.|last4 =Sasselov|first4 =D.|last5 =Gilliland|first5 =R.|last6 =Batalha|first6 =N.|last7 =Latham|first7 =D. W.|last8 =Caldwell|first8 =D.|last9 =Basri|first9 =G.|last10 =Brown|first10 =T.|last11 =Christensen-Dalsgaard|first11 =J.|last12 =Cochran|first12 =W. D.|last13 =Devore|first13 =E.|last14 =Dunham|first14 =E.|last15 =Dupree|first15 =A. K.|last16 =Gautier|first16 =T.|last17 =Geary|first17 =J.|last18 =Gould|first18 =A.|last19 =Howell|first19 =S.|last20 =Kjeldsen|first20 =H.|last21 =Lissauer|first21 =J.|last22 =Marcy|first22 =G.|last23 =Meibom|first23 =S.|last24 =Morrison|first24 =D.|last25 =Tarter|first25 =J.|s2cid =206522122|display-authors =8|url =https://zenodo.org/record/1230908}}

On February 26, 2014, NASA announced the discovery of 715 newly verified exoplanets around 305 stars by the Kepler Space Telescope. The exoplanets were found using a statistical technique called "verification by multiplicity". 95% of the discovered exoplanets were smaller than Neptune and four, including Kepler-296f, were less than 2 1/2 the size of Earth and were in habitable zones where surface temperatures are suitable for liquid water.{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Michele|last2=Harrington|first2=J.D.|title=NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds|url=http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza/|date=February 26, 2014|work=NASA|access-date=February 26, 2014}}{{cite web|last=Wall|first=Mike|title=Population of Known Alien Planets Nearly Doubles as NASA Discovers 715 New Worlds|website=Space.com|date=26 February 2014|url=http://www.space.com/24824-alien-planets-population-doubles-nasa-kepler.html|access-date=26 February 2014}}{{cite news|title=Kepler telescope bags huge haul of planets|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26362433|access-date=27 February 2014}}

File:KnownExoplanets-Sizes-20160510.jpg|Bar graph of Exoplanets by size - the gold bars represent Kepler's latest newly verified exoplanets (May 10, 2016).

File:ExoplanetDiscoveries-Histogram-20160510.jpg|Bar graph of Exoplanet Discoveries - gold bar displays new planets "verified by multiplicity" (May 10, 2016).

On May 10, 2016, NASA announced that the Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets.{{cite news|url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered|title=NASA's Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered|work=NASA|publisher=NASA News|date=May 10, 2016|access-date=2016-05-11}} Based on some of the planet's sizes, about 550 could potentially be rocky planets. Nine of these orbit in their stars' habitable zone.

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