Kepler-385 (also designated KOI-2433) is an F-type main-sequence star located about 4,900 light-years (1,500 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The star is 10% larger and 5% hotter than the Sun. The star has at least three, and potentially up to seven, exoplanets discovered orbiting it.

The star has a mass of 1.05 solar masses, a radius of 1.157 solar radii, a temperature of 5829 Kelvin and a luminosity of 1.39 times the solar luminosity.

Planetary system

Kepler-385 was observed by the Kepler space telescope, which initially detected a total of seven planet candidates. Two of these, KOI-2433.01 & .02, were confirmed in 2014 as Kepler-385 b & c, and a third, KOI-2433.03, was confirmed in 2020 as Kepler-385 d. These confirmations were part of studies using statistical validation to confirm large numbers of Kepler candidates. The candidate KOI-2433.05 was shown to be a false positive.

In 2023, a new updated catalog of Kepler candidates was presented, including an eighth candidate around Kepler-385, KOI-2433.08, making it a candidate seven-planet system. Kepler-385 is tied with Kepler-90 - a confirmed eight-planet system - as the Kepler system with the most planet candidates.

The Kepler-385 planetary system
Companion (in order from star)MassSemimajor axis (AU)Orbital period (days)EccentricityInclinationRadius
.08 (unconfirmed)3.37376±0.000031.206+0.110 −0.101 R🜨
.06 (unconfirmed)0.0676.06325±0.000061.441+0.129 −0.106 R🜨
b0.09710.04381±0.000082.313+0.210 −0.162 R🜨
c0.12715.16213±0.000142.406+0.549 −0.146 R🜨
.04 (unconfirmed)0.18927.90426±0.000401.903+0.184 −0.142 R🜨
d0.30256.41581±0.001352.423+0.210 −0.161 R🜨
.07 (unconfirmed)0.40286.43086±0.002052.252±0.199 R🜨