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 ...

One of the smallest exoplanets yet discovered has just been confirmed as a rocky world, scientists announced. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

A rocky extrasolar planet known to have wild temperature extremes may also be covered in volcanoes. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

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 ...

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 ...

The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...