Together with Benneke, Peterson looked through data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, specifically everything gathered during the spacecraft’s 17th observational campaign, and used the tried-and-true transiting method to spot any potential exoplanets.
Wolf 503b, a super-Earth exoplanet twice the size of Earth, is discovered orbiting Wolf 503 [ru] 145 light years away by American, German, and Canadian researchers via the NASA Kepler Space Telescope.