Here’s how it works. Scientists have created the first-ever cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system. Although the roughly Jupiter-size Kepler-7b lies far closer to its star than scorching ...

Building a map, the scientists found that ... These are not water clouds, Demory pointed out: The planet is far too hot for water to stick around. Kepler-7b’s dense clouds are probably made ...

Kepler 452b, often called Earth’s “cousin,” has fascinated scientists and space enthusiasts alike for its remarkable ...

The map shows clouds on the exoplanet Kepler-7b, one of the first five planets confirmed discovered by the unmanned Kepler probe. Circling Kepler-7, this planet is classified as a "hot Jupiter." ...

"And this might help melt ice sheets formed at other times in the planet's orbit." To determine the shape of possible Kepler-62f orbits, the team used HNBody, a computer model, to map out the ...

Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, New Scientist has made an interactive map illustrating the stars that we might expect to host roughly Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets.

So far, this map includes position information for about ... The "larger" correlation stems from Kepler's planet-hunting strategy, which is called the "transit method." Kepler notices the tiny ...

Well, we can thank the now-retired Kepler Telescope for a lot of the rapid growth. The number of planets found increased substantially once Kepler began helping in the search for exoplanets.

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun ...

Click on the options under "Select layout" to map the planets based on their location in the sky, or on their distance from the Sun. (Since the Kepler planet-hunting satellite aims at a single ...

As previously reported, thanks to the massive trove of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler mission, we now have a good idea of what kinds of planets are out there, where they orbit, and how common ...

The first planet ever spotted by the Kepler space telescope is falling into its star. Kepler launched in 2009 on a mission to find exoplanets by watching them cross in front of their stars.