Scientists publishing in Astrophysical Journal Letters say they've used space telescopes to record faint light from the distant planet to get a... Scientists are reasonably sure that it's a cloudy day ...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b. The ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five exoplanets, the U.S. space agency announced Jan. 4 at the ...

On the left is an artist’s recreation of what the clouds look like on a planet called Kepler-7b, a hot Jupiter in orbit around a large, aging star in the constellation Lyra. And, for the first time in ...

The number of confirmed exoplanets, or worlds orbiting distant suns, shot past 1,000 last week, according to the semi-official Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. That’s pretty heady stuff considering ...

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Kepler-7b is to date the only exoplanet for which clouds have been inferred from the optical phase curve — from visible-wavelength whole-disk brightness measurements as a function of orbital phase.

Scientists are reasonably sure that it's a cloudy day on Kepler-7b, a planet that orbits its star about 1,000 light-years away from us. Using NASA's orbiting space telescopes, researchers publishing ...