"KOI" stands for "Kepler object of interest." "There's a lot we don't know about this planet," said Kepler researcher Susan Mullally, so it's too soon to say if KOI-7711 is truly a twin of Earth ...

The candidate, known as KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 4.01, was originally pegged as a possible Neptune-size planet orbiting a star a smidge bigger than our sun. KOI 4.01 was dismissed by some ...

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).

The planet orbits a star initially dubbed KOI 4, for Kepler Object of Interest 4 (KOIs 1 through 3 were known before Kepler launched in March 2009). When the planet passed in front of the star ...

They're included in a new catalog of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) designed for use by scientists. "This catalog represents a significant step forward on the long road to figuring out how ...

They had the program analyze data from more than 7,000 "objects of interest" in the Kepler data, which at first glance look like planetary transits. They found that about 2,000 of them had less ...

Situated more than 100 light years from the Sun, these exoplanets culled from the Kepler Object of Interest Exoplanet Archive of transiting exoplanets were selected because they have some ...

Once those dips signifying possible planets are found in the data, scientists qualify them as "Kepler objects of interest" (or KOIs for short), which can then be validated as official planets ...

We present results from high-resolution, optical to near-IR imaging of host stars of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), identified in the original Kepler field. Part of the data were obtained ...

KOI 326.01 appears to be the smallest of the five candidates. ("KOI," by the way, stands for Kepler Object of Interest. SolStation.com has the full rundown on Kepler's potentially habitable planet ...

Two newfound candidates — known as KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 5737.01 and KOI 2194.03 — are particularly intriguing, he added. Both circle sunlike stars, and appear to lie in the ...