High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kepler-10c is an exoplanet orbiting yellow giant Kepler-10, located around 560 light-years away in Draco. Its discovery was announced by Kepler in May 2011, although it had been seen as a planetary candidate since January 2011 when Kepler-10b was discovered. The team confirmed the observation using data from NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope and a technique called Blender that ruled out most false positives. Kepler-10c was the third transiting planet to be confirmed statistically (based on probability rather than actual observation), after Kepler-9d and Kepler-11g. The Kepler team considers the statistical method that led to the discovery of Kepler-10c as what will be necessary to confirm many planets in Kepler`s field of view.