astro-ph: “We conclude that, as far as we have been exhaustive, we have discovered a planetary companion, named CoRoT-7b, for which we derive a period of 0.853 59 +/- 3 10-5 day and a radius of Rp = 1 ...
When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it's more like a comet. In a paper to be published ...
One of the smallest exoplanets yet discovered has just been confirmed as a rocky world, scientists announced. The planet, called CoRoT-7b, is the first planet beyond our solar system with a proven ...
When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an earthlike planet hospitable to life. Rocky ...
Jackson states, "Corot-7b is almost 60 times closer to its star than Earth, so the star appears almost 360 times larger than the sun does in our sky." Because of this close proximity to its star, the ...
There's finally proof that Earth-like planets can exist outside our solar system: Scientists have managed to measure the mass of exoplanet COROT-7b, revealing that it's the first exoplanet with a ...
Astronomers have obtained the best evidence yet that a planet orbiting a star 400 light years away from Earth is a solid, rocky world just like our own. The extrasolar planet (or exoplanet), known as ...
A. Leger, D. Rouan, J. Schneider, P. Barge, M. Fridlund, B. Samuel, M. Ollivier, E. Guenther, M. Deleuil, H.J. Deeg, M. Auvergne, R. Alonso, S. Aigrain, A. Alapini, J ...
The most Earth-like planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-sized gas giant. The most earthlike planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a ...
NEW YORK — The first rocky planet confirmed to be orbiting another star is truly one strange world, with rock rains, potentially raging volcanoes and huge temperature differences between its night and ...
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Oceans of lava might bubble on its surface. Hot pebbles may rain down from the sky. But the extrasolar planet CoRoT-7b is considered to be the most Earthlike world yet found outside our solar system.