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 ...

The existence of COROT-7b suggests other similar planets could exist in an orbit that is cooler and less hostile. Credit: Photo: EPA A new study of the planet, which orbits a star 500 light years away ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like exoplanets. The detection by CoRoT ...